Robert Moog Quotes

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

I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

Midi is my hobby.

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

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.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

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

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

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.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

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 am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.