Bono Quotes

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

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

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.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

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.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

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.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

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.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

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

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.