Kaskade Quotes

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Now everybody's sampling.

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.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

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

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

I want recording to be fun.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

Whoever has a next-level ear needs to be an Eardrummer.

I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.

I just felt something was missing from my vision of what Tycho should eventually be. It took several years of learning new recording and production techniques to get to a point where I felt I could make a record like 'Awake.'

When Thug hears a song, he knows how the whole shape of the thing goes. He can nudge the whole frame to the left to make it offbeat and sound how he wants it to sound.

When I went to AI New England in Boston, I used to do my mixtapes, and honestly, if you look back at any of my mixtapes, every single mixtape tells a story.

When I hear something new, mostly in rhythms, I often find it interesting to recreate it in a studio in a completely different way.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.