Troy Carter Quotes

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.

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.

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

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

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.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Music's always been at the heart of Apple. It's deep in our DNA. We've sold Macs to musicians since the beginning of Macs.

There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.

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

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

Apple is a company that understands music.

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.

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.

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

It's not what Apple and Beats are doing today. It's what we believe pairing the two together can produce for the future.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

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

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

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.