Synthesizer Music Quotes

'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

Man, the '80s were pretty wacky. You had some stuff that was just so rad and some stuff that was just so wrong.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

But synthesizer music has been accepted as emotional for long enough that it isn't a huge reach, conceptually, to think of a fake voice as 'emotional', especially since there's a human composing it.

When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

I love the '80s. I'm obsessed with it. I love the hair and the people.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.