Sonic Artistry Quotes

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

If you see me, you're going to hear some type of music coming out of me.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

Music is everywhere, and it's an amazing and creative way for people to express themselves, so I love it.

On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds

Music happens. It cannot be made.

Music is inarticulate poesy.

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.