C418 Quotes

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

At a time when club music has gone more electronic, I've gone the other way: organic and world music.

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

I mainly like to do singer/songwriter kind of stuff.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

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

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

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.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.