John Eaton Quotes

A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

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.

It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

My first bit of gear was a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I used to hammer the hell out of that.

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

There is nothing wrong in electronic music or synthesised music.

I took to the synthesizer. My cousin had some synthesizers, and I'd always make stuff on those things.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

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

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

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.

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.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

I was always fascinated particularly with synths: how they looked and stuff that when you're a kid you're like this is the most incredible thing in the world just to play.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.

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