Jimmy Smith Quotes

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.

It's taken a while for me to figure out my sound. It's tough, coming from DJing, because you know how things are supposed to sound, but you also don't want to be formulaic about it.

I always try to evolve my sound - innovate, improve, be different but still Martin Garrix. It all starts with an idea in my head, which I work on until it starts to shape itself into a track.

When I'm in the studio, I'm experimenting, trying things on.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

In my honest opinion, in 'Volumes I' and 'II,' we were still trying to figure out our sound.

I view making records as a journey.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

I'm always looking to develop my sound and I'm in the studio whenever I have the time to do this. Always looking ahead!

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I love the magic of the studio.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.