St. Vincent Quotes

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

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.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music.

I was doing music tech as a subject and learned how to use Logic Pro and that's when I kind of had a platform to put my ideas on. It all just went from there.

My journey began when I found out about YouTube on how do you make music, and from that, people started explaining me how I had to do it.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

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.

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.

I design music; I don't produce it.

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