Thomas Bangalter Quotes

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I love 808s - not only the Auto-Tune but just, in general, the embrace of a kind of digital style of working.

No one has bridged that gap between music and technology yet.

What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

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

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

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 was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

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

I was always fascinated particularly with synths: how they looked and stuff that when you're a kid you're like this is the most incredible thing in the world just to play.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

There is nothing wrong in electronic music or synthesised music.