Electronic Music Quotes - Page 4

• What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

  Justin Broadrick

  Sound, Needs, May

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.

  Christian Fennesz

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

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• I think a lot people get caught up with the synthetic quality of electronic music, but me, I've always been more interested in all those more natural sounds, in organic electricity. That's something that I want to continue to work with.

  Patrick Wolf

  Thinking, People, Quality

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.

  Casey Spooner

  People, Different, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.

  Jenny O.

  Art, Rock And Roll, Light

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• America and Europe are getting closer to each other. In the U.S. you've always had hip - hop, the blues, soul, and rock. For the last decade, there has always been a lot of electronic music in Europe. When I was just at Coachella, I noticed how the music they play there has become electronic, techno, deep house, more European - so I think it's more similar than before.

  Erik Hassle

  Thinking, House, Soul

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was doing mainly music, I used to stick a microphone out the window, into the countryside, and create a live mix. I wanted to put air in electronic music. I record the sounds of twigs, barks, and stones. I've always been obsessed with the idea of combining the natural and the man-made. It's not because I think the technology is crap, or that I'm trying to work against it, but that juxtaposition is truly beautiful. The question of what is natural and unnatural is very open.

  Mira Calix

  Beautiful, Thinking, Technology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been making electronic music since I was 12. I was making music as soon as I knew how to make sounds on a piano. My parents had a baby grand, and the piano is still my favorite instrument. I look at it as a songwriting machine.

  Travis Stewart

  Baby, Parent, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.

  Sam de Jong

  Zero, Thinking, People

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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• First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So I'd stay there all night and leave in the morning, observe the sun rise and have a lot of different kinds of sounds in my mind. But it was a quest, it was a search. It was research, it was learning.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Morning, Night, Class

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• When I was in London I found house music and techno, and I love that s - t. It's my go-to music. It's the closest for me to the old funk of James Brown and the repetitive dance music that I like from the soul music. I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients.

  Erik Hassle

  School, House, Soul

  Source: wwd.com

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• I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Two, San Francisco, Track

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Home, Joy, Collecting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Teenager, Interesting, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.

  Paul Oakenfold

  America, Vegas, Ibiza

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I came out of an electronic music scene that based all its music on software. It was a real boys thing, a real testosterone thing - software and the relationship between music and the software - to the point where it was like a closely guarded secret.

  Herbert

  Real, Boys, Secret

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.

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• When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

  Avicii

  Rave, Periods, Havens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Interesting, Waiting, Punk

  "Daft Punk Talk 'Random Access Memories,' EDM Scene in GQ" by Emily Zemler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 07, 2013.

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• Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

  John Cage

  Music, Fighting, Hands

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• I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.

  Victoria Legrand

  Powerful, Crazy, Thinking

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• I’ve been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band.

  Moby

  Order, Years, Rocks

  "Moby Discusses His Issues". Interview with Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I'm a very optimistic person. I have the chance to listen to so much phenomenal music. Connecting with social networking to create music is a progression of what electronic music does anyway - it connects people.

  Paul van Dyk

  Optimistic, People, Networking

  "DJ Paul Van Dyk is Back After A Five Year Break". Hollywood Life Interview, hollywoodlife.com. May 31, 2012.

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• You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.

  Alan Arkin

  Real, Years, People

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

  Robert Moog

  Years, Musical, Building

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

  Robert Moog

  Kids, Musical, Building

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