Live Instruments Quotes

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments.

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

I use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably use Pro Tools and have the band lay stuff down.

I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.

I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me, real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized.

A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.

I always tell my audiences not to listen to such artists who play audio CDs at their concerts. Such shows shouldn't be called live shows. People like AR Rahman, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Arijit Singh are the ones who hold true concerts.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

I tried to stay away from the Euro beats, and not go totally pop. Instead, I wanted to take the Quincy Jones approach. The record pays homage to the Stevie Wonders, the Michael Jacksons, the Sam Cookes. I wanted to put that classic essence of R&B and soul with the new age of music now. There’s a lot of live instruments, and a lot less Auto-Tune. I really wanted to demonstrate my vocal ability, creating the vibe of me singing along with a band.

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

Hopefully the music of the future will not be all electronic. There is a place for it if it is used sparingly.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.