Miles Davis Quotes

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

For "Running Up That Hill" we had worked with a drum machine [in 1985]; the basic rhythms of "Running Up That Hill" happened because the whole track was built on a drum machine.

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.

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.

I use the aid of technology while running through songs. Visual tuners and feeling the vibrations through the floor to keep time.

If you know Down South production, Roland 808 is in almost everything.

While I absolutely love a great drummer and get tunnel vision listening to drums at a show, a lot of the time I feel like drum machine-driven music tethers you to a genre.

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

I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.

All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 'cause I like the way the drums sound.

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.

This new project, 'Excursions,' has been a trip down my own memory lane before 'Minecraft,' when I aspired to create music I could hear on a commute to dance to.

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 whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10.

I think that my biggest influences are electronic acts. Daft Punk is probably my number 1, then Kanye West would be number 2 after that.

I'm an electronic manipulator. Most people think J.J. Cale, he's organic. There ain't nothing organic about me.

I started DJ-ing in the '90s. DJ-ing is in every record I do. When I make records I make them for DJs.

I had eJay, and then I had Acid Pro. I had a crack of both of them, and I would just make little loops, and then I'd hum along to them. I used to spend a lot of time on a computer looking for music and making beats and stuff.