Alex Winston Quotes

I like live-sounding things.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

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.

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

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

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.

I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.

Fans want real songs, they want real experiences, and they want real instruments.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I always like earthy, authentic sounds.

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose.

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

Certain songs are almost like folk songs, which I love. I love folk music, and if you listen to 'Live Bullet,' there's 'Jody Girl,' which is almost a folk song, and I've always loved folk music. Quiet music, I don't try to do that with - I try to set a mood. But most of the stuff I do enjoy recording is up-tempo, and yes, I try to recreate that.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.

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.