Geoff Downes Quotes

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I'm in this music duo called Moors.

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

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.

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

I'd like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris... there are so many artists and producers.

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.

I'm a studio rat.

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.

I generally use a lot of analog instruments, a few synths from the '80s like the Roland Juno-106, and an old Fender bullet guitar.

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris headed by one of the most important people involved in electronic music.

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

I started a group called Loudpvck, which I do by myself now, and toured the whole world.