Mandy Harvey Quotes

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

Let there be bass.

I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford.

Possessing best musical equipment has always been my craze.

I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know.

I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

I started DJing when I was, like, 11.

I love deejaying, of course; that's where my heart and my passion is.

DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.

When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.

Music, music, music. It doesn't get much better than that! It pretty much consumes my life.

I went to college to study the piano and cello.

As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.

I've worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years.

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.