“A good novelist loves all of his characters, he lives in them, even in those who commit or must commit terrible acts.” Quote by Liao Yiwu
“We are all social human beings, so making music is a way to contribute to society, to feel needed, to feel necessary. We need this. My driving force is the fun of doing something creative, being a valuable member of society, and getting feedback.” FunCreativeMusic IsValuableDrivingFeedback Author:Erik Wiegand
“The first time you have a little success, some good feedback, you start imagining having a career, or being a professional musician. But while being creative, or doing creative work, is very natural for humans, to think of that as your main occupation, that's a really important transition.” ThinkingImportantNaturalCreativeMusicianFirst TimeBe CreativeFeedbackCreative Work Author:Erik Wiegand
“But for me it's very difficult to finish music on my own. It's the fear of losing the fun. It's very easy to get a sketch of something or an idea together in a very short time, to try out something new, but to get a five minute track to play out is much harder, at least for me. When I start to construct something, it often ends in frustration.” TryingTogetherFunEasyDifficultLosingTrackFrustrationSomething New Author:Erik Wiegand
“When you can inspire other people to do something they couldn't do before, that's a very satisfying feeling. Sometimes I meet people and they're over the top excited to tell me how much they love Razor. There is no shortage of synthesizers out there, every week there's a new synthesizer, especially plugins - there is a lot of competition - so if you make somebody really excited about synthesizer it really feels good, so it's a source of a lot of pride and satisfaction.” PeopleSometimesFeelingsWeekInspirePrideCompetitionExcitedFeel Good Author:Erik Wiegand
“When I play live, it doesn't look like I'm interacting with the crowd that much because I'm looking at the controllers and I'm concentrating, but I really like it, for me it's easier to play live than to work in the studio, it's more natural to be on stage improvising.” Natural Author:Erik Wiegand
“I do music mainly just for myself in the beginning, and of course it's great when I get a reaction, but I'm more interested in hearing something unusual to my ears, and that's what I'm also looking for in other people's music. It's not interesting to look for a sound that is made to make everyone on the planet move - I wanna have both, I want something danceable but very creative and unusual.” MovingInterestingCreativeUnusual Author:Erik Wiegand
“The positive thing about collaborating is that I cannot get distracted by coding work, because I cannot waste the other collaborator's time in the same way as I can my own. And it's always good to learn how the other person works, learn about techniques, learn social things like: how do you communicate with another person? The music I make with other people I'm much more confident about, I'm a little bit less judgemental of the outcome than with my own stuff because I know it's not only me, it's a more outside of me. Sometimes I even like them better than my own tracks.” PeopleSometimesTrackCommunicateDistractedJudgemental Author:Erik Wiegand
“Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.” PeopleKindMovingCultureNegotiation Author:Iain Sinclair
“People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.” PeopleMoving Author:Iain Sinclair
“I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same place all the time, and people like me who are constantly roaming around.” PeopleMovingUnderstandingContradiction Author:Iain Sinclair