Synthesized Music Quotes

The first time I saw 'Minecraft,' people wanted to have 8-bit style video game music. But I wanted to go around that and make something organic and partly electronic, partly acoustic, and see if that would be interesting.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

I would say when you're dealing with live musicians and musicality, the warmth of a live instrument brings a certain feel to a song that is really hard, sometimes, to get from synthesized instruments.

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

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

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.

Honestly, so much of that EDM stuff is just so disposable.

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.

Hopefully the music of the future will not be all electronic. There is a place for it if it is used sparingly.

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

I do not think classical music faces any threat because new music is being made through computer, as the real charm of classical is its purity, and one who is seeking purity will surely find classical music in spite of so many alternatives.

Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

I'm nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white polo necks, who would lounge on big white sofas sipping blue wine from big glass globes, beside women like the ones on the covers of Hedkandi chill out compilations.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

I think there's a genuine difference between the real and the virtual in music.