Electronic Music Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.

  Stella Mozgawa

  Thinking, Parent, Listening

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• Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

  Chaz Bundick

  Trends, Music Is

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

  Lykke Li

  Tape, Band, Laptops

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.

  Karin Dreijer Andersson

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

  "Fever Ray". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. March 30, 2009.

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• People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.

  Max Tundra

  Hate, People, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Thinking, Different, Machines

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrète, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Real, Nuts, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry!

  Suzanne Ciani

  Fans, Normal, Problem

  "Orchestrating The Sunrise: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani Interviewed". Interview with Danny Riley, thequietus.com. September 13, 2016.

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• In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it started. And I had a tape recorder and started making things with it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Europe, Community, Tape

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• My start came with experimental musicians and live bands. I never played with DJ's because it wasn't really the correct fit. It fit in more with someone using a laptop to create their own electronic music. When you're doing music like that, it's hard to get more than 20 people to come to your show.

  Girl Talk

  People, Musician, Band

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

  Varg Vikernes

  Speak, Classical Music, Grew Up

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French.

  Thomas Bangalter

  House, Chicago, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I really like Chopin piano music. I really like Wendy Carlo's electronic music. I really like Miles Davis and John Mclaughlin jazz style. So I'm not only an old-school rocker, but I have to admit that I'm going to be listening to The Doors, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Bob Dylan many times a week.

  Gordon Raphael

  Old School, Piano, Doors

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• What I find the challenge is with working with, say, digital machines - performing electronic music - is that when we play instruments there's a physical act that results in a physical vibration. There's a mapping between our exertions and resultant vibrations, or resonance.

  Vijay Iyer

  Challenges, Performing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for audiences. But the ingredients of electronic music are the same ingredients of nonelectronic music.

  Vijay Iyer

  Audience

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.

  Gregor Schwellenbach

  Thinking, Goal, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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• People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.

  Brian Eno

  Real, People, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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