Clairo Quotes

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

I took to the synthesizer. My cousin had some synthesizers, and I'd always make stuff on those things.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

Most of today's music is done electronically.

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

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 I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.

When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.

I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.

There is nothing wrong in electronic music or synthesised music.

A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.

The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or less impossible to record music in prison, and the only music I could record was electronic music, when I was allowed to have a synthesizer for a few months in 1994 or 1995 and in 1998.

To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.

I got a little baby grand piano off Craigslist for, like, $500. It's a beautiful instrument that you hear on a bunch of the songs. That's that piano on 'Keep Your Name' and 'Work Together' and 'Little Bubble.'

I've worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years.

I've always been good about interfacing with machines. But that never seemed like a gateway to being able to make music. I never made the connection that music could be made with machines - that was what drum and bass was for me.

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.

Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.