Tim Commerford Quotes

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

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

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I first started playing music.

Everyone's on their phones, and everyone makes things with the aid of some electronic tool. Electronic music is no different.

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 always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

I had eJay, and then I had Acid Pro. I had a crack of both of them, and I would just make little loops, and then I'd hum along to them. I used to spend a lot of time on a computer looking for music and making beats and stuff.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

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.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

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 got on a bit of a rollercoaster looking into how Herbie Hancock used to make his tunes, and I remember a picture of Jean-Michel Jarre at one of his concerts and seeing the Memorymoog. When I heard the sound it I was like, 'Arrrgh, I really need that.'

I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.

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.

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. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.