Teddy Thompson 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 technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

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

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.

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.

The last thing I do is go and listen to heavy rock music. But I love electronic music. The purity of the tones is inspiring, because it's obviously much more controlled than a guitar tone.

I listen to music that doesn't have words. I love Kygo - he's tropical house, and that's my stuff!

I'm a fan of good music, period.

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

I've always tried to avoid electronic music in India because whatever songs I got in the genre I didn't really enjoy singing them - I didn't like the arrangements.

I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but that's more electronic.

I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.

I don't really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I'm like an old person.

The music on the radio is fine, it's just not my type of music. You don't play an instrument, and you don't need to be able to sing. You just need to be able to make a beat and use auto-tune. It's crazy!

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I really like deep house.

I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.

In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

As a kid growing up in a lower-class neighbourhood, where everyone around me was listening to hip hop, what was I doing listening to new wave, and why was that my favourite music? I don't know why, but it just spoke to me.