Automated Music Quotes

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.

With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

The age of the rock star ended with the passing of physical product, the rise of automated percussion, the domination of the committee approach to hit-making, the widespread adoption of choreography, and, above all, the advent of the mystique-destroying Internet.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.