Ron Carter Quotes

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

Live music is better.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

'Funny' is really cool live. You break it down into an acoustic set, and sometimes I'll do that one unplugged and off the mic, depending on the venue.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.

I like live-sounding things.

At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.

Folk music is very honest, it's very humble, it's very organic, and the voice is exactly that. And so I'm very excited to put the two together.

Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction, making music that's real and fresh. And those cats are getting back to the basics without auto-tune. And a lot of those cats are packing out venues without getting played on the radio!

Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me.

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it.

When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.

When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.

Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.

You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

I love the tone of old, non-amplified, real acoustic fiddles, and Wood Violins are the closest thing I have found to that sound. They play beautifully!