Soundscapes Quotes

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's the first thing I have to solidify whenever...I get into a character. The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.

There's more to music than just words over tracks.

I was completely fascinated by the studio process and layering sounds and creating soundscapes out of layering massive squalls of sound.

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I love futurist music.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

Massive Attack has always been more of an experiment than a band or even a collective.

I'm always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.