Tom Morello Quotes

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

I generally use a lot of analog instruments, a few synths from the '80s like the Roland Juno-106, and an old Fender bullet guitar.

The last thing I do is go and listen to heavy rock music. But I love electronic music. The purity of the tones is inspiring, because it's obviously much more controlled than a guitar tone.

The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.

I would love to do a complete EDM album.

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks.

I produce electronic kind of music, like EDM kind of stuff.

When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday.