Sound Authenticity Quotes

I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments.

I want to make music that is completely electronic but doesn't feel it.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

One of the goals we had when making 'Moth' was to have the vocals sound less treated and less processed than we'd ever had before, to just let them be exposed and very audible.

I'm an electronic manipulator. Most people think J.J. Cale, he's organic. There ain't nothing organic about me.

I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

Yeah, we're definitely not opposed to working with famous vocalists, but we really want to make sure that it's all about the sound of the voice and how appropriate it is for the song, and not kind of 'getting together with people just for the sake of it' kind of thing.

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.