Electronic Instruments Quotes

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.

I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

The smaller the instrument or more hidden it is such as electronics, the more esoteric it becomes and in my mind becomes boring watching someone go like this and that has no direct... It's just a complete abstract motion, not attach to any sound.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

Electronic music was this super cool thing to me my whole life.

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music.