Digital Instruments Quotes

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.

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

There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because we didn't need a band anymore. We became a duo because of technology.

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

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

To me, I don't see any difference between a synthesizer and an acoustic instrument. It's what's done on it that counts.

I don't have a huge amount of gear, but on the software side, I have a number of plug-in chains that act as abstracted versions of real instruments.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.