Bill Bruford Quotes

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

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

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

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

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.

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 never went to music school.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

I could talk about technique, theory and gear for days!

I studied jazz in college. I studied music history, and I have a degree in music engineering.

I sing and write a lot of pop, R&B.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

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.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

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.

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.