Evan Parker Quotes

I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

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.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Whenever people talk about Don and I recording again, which almost everybody usually mentions, I always say 'Well, there's plenty of things that you haven't heard! Plenty of things out there to discover!'

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

I keep recording and recording, but they always stay on the rack and never get out there.

Every record I've ever done with Tool has been on tape.

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

Future is gonna be remembered forever. Future just has so much quality music.

Well, me and Freaky been knowing each other for a while, and he was always playing crazy music in his room, but he would never release it. He's, like, the most underground rapper I know, and he's crazy talented.

I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer. Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound.

There's a part of me which feels content to leave songs in a vault not to be heard until after my death.

Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.

My mother didn't listen to my first tape, or my second one.

I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.

When The B-52s started in the late '70s, music and the business was totally different. Obviously, it's easier for everyone to be able to work with music, record, and get good quality.