Tom Misch Quotes

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.

I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.

I design music; I don't produce it.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

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

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.

My journey began when I found out about YouTube on how do you make music, and from that, people started explaining me how I had to do it.

I've worked with Childish Gambino for so long, so I've learned that from those producing skills - how to really produce music - where, of course, it's about writing, but it's also about combining sounds and styles and genres.

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

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 would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

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