Pete Townshend Quotes

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

We got pretty techno on 'Eliminator' and 'Afterburner,' which I enjoyed. I think they're good albums, but we wanted to start using the techno element a little more sparingly.

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

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

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

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

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

I think my sound is post-Internet.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

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

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

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

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

I produce electronic kind of music, like EDM kind of stuff.

When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday.

Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

I love Sylvan Esso. I want to bring in more electronic elements, but also some analogue stuff. Stuff like '70s drum machines really fascinates me.