Sivamani 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.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

Music's always been at the heart of Apple. It's deep in our DNA. We've sold Macs to musicians since the beginning of Macs.

I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum machine, and then I'll come back later and try to pop off rhythms to it.

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.

When you're sitting in the basement trying to get on, you have no choice - you've gotta figure out how to make a song: 'I've gotta bang on these buttons until it sounds good.'

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

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 been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

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.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.