Tycho Quotes

I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum machine, and then I'll come back later and try to pop off rhythms to it.

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.

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

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 started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

Blue Monday's distinctive intro was written on an Oberheim DMX drum machine.

I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.

I'm always making tracks. I find that when you make tons of tracks, you stumble upon genius. You can't always turn the drum machine on and right away there's a hot track. Sometimes you luck out. But it can take a lot of time between thinking about the artist, listening to music for inspiration or going to clubs.

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

When I was a kid, I played drums, and when I first got a 4-track, I would put down drumbeats and then do the rest of the tracks on top.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

I found it easy to produce. I'm not the musical guy. I can't read and play music like that, but put some drums and a sample in front of me and I can whip it up nice, and I'll work out some keys and find some interesting instruments to put under it.

I grew up on Dilla, Timbaland, Pharrell, all these drums that are super pocketed, so all those influences come out on a song like 'Ungrateful Eyes,' with all the crazy drum swing.

I played drums since I was 6 years old. And then I got into producing music when I was about 16 or 17. Somebody showed me FL Studios, the program. My beats were bad at first, but then eventually they started to get good.

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.

I started making beats when I was nine in my bedroom and garage.

The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

I made my entire first tape using Beats headphones - the studio headphones and halfway through the second one, because I finally started making a home studio. But I record and make all my beats with the Beats headphones.

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.

Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats.

All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 'cause I like the way the drums sound.