Beat Programming Quotes

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

As a guitar player, I've been influenced by dance music - it was Crystal Method and The Prodigy back in the day. I would listen to those textures and try to approximate them on the electric guitar.

Mad World's distinctive percussion intro was played on a Roland CR-78 drum machine. We first recorded it at twice the speed, but it sounded great slowed down.

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.

Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that predominantly matches the artist in my 30 years of doing this, it was me walking in and sitting there with no drums, no samples, no nothing, and making a beat on the spot.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

I love Sylvan Esso. I want to bring in more electronic elements, but also some analogue stuff. Stuff like '70s drum machines really fascinates me.

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.

I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me.

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

When I use electronic beats and program things, there's something quite brain about that - you're feeling it in your body but it's like a puzzle you wanna solve, and it gets very detailed. I really enjoy that side of music.

I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

While I absolutely love a great drummer and get tunnel vision listening to drums at a show, a lot of the time I feel like drum machine-driven music tethers you to a genre.

I started making beats in high school.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.