Electronic Music Quotes - Page 4

• I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

  Matt Tong

  Thinking, Fans, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

  Eric Benet

  Dope, Radio, Popular Music

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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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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• 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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• 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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• If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

  David Byrne

  Home, Enjoy, Music Is

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• I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

  Mike Shinoda

  Cutting, Technology, Excited

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Says Billboard Awards Performance Served as 'Preview' of New Video" by Portia Medina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 21, 2012.

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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 only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

  Dhani Harrison

  Love, Teenager, Prodigies

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

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

  Robert Moog

  Kids, Musical, Building

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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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• 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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• 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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• I never thought electronic music would get as popular in America as it has. When I first came to Vegas in 2009 for my residency - we were they only people playing electronic music at that time.

  Paul Oakenfold

  America, Vegas, People

  Source: www.etonline.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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• In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.

  Scott Walker

  Teenage, Years, Free Jazz

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.

  Doug Martsch

  Thinking, People, Records

  "Real Time With Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch". Interview with Azeen Ghorayshi, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2012.

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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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