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Electronic Musician Inspirational Quotes (68)

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I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.
Venetian Snares
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I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. A bit disturbing as I believe that is the theme to The Exorcist. Maybe she thought she was having Satan's baby.
Venetian Snares
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Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?
Venetian Snares
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The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.
Stuart Price
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A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
Aphex Twin
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If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, huh.
Aphex Twin
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A set is created to make dance the crowd not for listening at home. A electronic set should only be heard in the party and when this party finishes the set shouldn't be heard for nobody, it should only be keeped on the mind of clubbers who were in the event.
Richie Hawtin
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You never know whether something will be good.
Thomas Bangalter
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Can't really despise people you don't know.
Aphex Twin
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To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying!
Skrillex
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You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.
Stuart Price
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America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.
Thomas Bangalter
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When I look at commercial studios, I think, Oh, they're all so nice and tidy, but it's because they don't actually write music in them.
Aphex Twin
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I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.
Aphex Twin
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My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.
Aphex Twin
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If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.
Aphex Twin
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I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair you know, like Duracell.
Aphex Twin
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Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.
Skrillex
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I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.
Skrillex
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The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.
Aphex Twin
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Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.
Aphex Twin
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Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.
Skrillex
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It always sounds more right to me when it's detuned. When it's right in tune, it's like there's something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it's all about frequencies and what they do to you. That's the real core.
Aphex Twin
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It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'
Aphex Twin
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