Todd Rundgren Quotes

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

I love music with real instruments. I'm not one of those guys that's a purist about analog vs. digital, but I love the analog approach. Sonically, I connect to that.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

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

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

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

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 enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

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

Midi is my hobby.

A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.

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.

I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.