Tod Machover Quotes

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I am an inventor of music.

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

What I really enjoy and what I do in the studio is play keyboard.

I'm always working on music.

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.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

My main thing is music; it's what I do.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

I consider myself a composer.