Mike Shinoda Quotes

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I first started playing music.

Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat superhuman.

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.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

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.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

Everyone's on their phones, and everyone makes things with the aid of some electronic tool. Electronic music is no different.

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

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.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

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.

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.

I love 808s - not only the Auto-Tune but just, in general, the embrace of a kind of digital style of working.

No one has bridged that gap between music and technology yet.

What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.