Barry Manilow Quotes

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

I don't feel like a live set even seems super real for an electronic act like me. It's not really that entertaining. I've seen a lot of my favourite acts take it to a new level with a live band and stuff, which is amazing, but for me, a live set would be boring to watch.

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

Typically in Korea when I perform I have a full band, a ten-piece band, and that's a completely different monster in itself to prepare and rehearse.

In my childhood, I used to go to theatres to watch independent singers' outing on screen. I used to be excited about how different they sound in a video and at a theatre.

It's about how you're using the space. That's what makes live music.

I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.

A record can make an artist sound in tune or make the music sound pretty. But the real test is performing live, and I think we pass fairly well, because people keep asking to see us play.

I was on the outside of the industry. So I started a podcast early in the podcast boom and that caught on a little. I made an album that went to No. 1 on the iTunes charts. I made my own special. I started my own storytelling show.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

I think the best thing about performing as producer is to hear the fans sing along with your tunes.

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you're playing in big places.

The DJ thing is just a way for me to perform my songs in public. It put me on the map, and a lot of people discovered me because of my DJing and later found out that I made beats.

I think of the Tycho sound as something separate from the band. I think the methodology and approach to production I use on the Tycho records can be applied to a lot of things. But from a performance and songwriting perspective, yes, Tycho is a live band.

I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.

I'm not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That's it.

My production got better, songs, lyrics, everything; the sound, the quality, everything.

I'm releasing more music as Virtual Self, I'm definitely going to be touring Virtual Self.

I like live musicians and personally orchestrate about 80 to 90% of all my scores.