“I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.” SongActorsComputerInstrumentsStudiosArrangements Author:St. Vincent
“The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.” WorldSongBornRoomsFictionRecordsNeededComputerPhonesChanging The WorldTied Author:Steve Jobs
“When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.” IfsWritingSongComputerTestsGuitarProgrammingDisguiseMisleadAcousticsSampleAcoustic Guitar Author:Martin Gore
“Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.” HandsAbleSongWatchesRecordsEmotionalListeningComputerImpactIncrediblesConvenience Author:Dave Grohl
“I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and beyond. So I don't think I'll ever have that feeling, unless I'm the one finishing the track.” ThinkingFeelingsProblemBigsLastsSongComputerTrackLuxuryFinishingBig Problems Author:David Macklovitch
“The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.” WorldMindWellsHeartMeanSoulDoneHelpingSpiritSongNamesConsciousnessAliveModernBuildingComputerBuiltInnovationBlowPocketsHospitalsAirportsModern WorldFull Hearts Author:Rob Bell
“I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.” ThinkingLittlesSongBitsComputerLittle BitProgrammersAlways ThinkingComputer Programmers Author:Jon Foreman
“You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works.” KnowsMaySongStuffWorryPiecesComputerRapStolenLeaks Author:Young Thug
“As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that!" So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!” UseRunningMovingArtistSongInterestStepsComputerListsTitlesPhrasesSong Titles Author:Andy Summers
“I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantGivingTwoReasonWholeSongTenComputerTwelveListenersPullingIpods Author:David Byrne
“An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way - with guitars, ukelele, a computer. So, that will never die. It's always the artist behind the computer, not the computer.” WayMomentsArtistSongDiesCultureCan DoBehindsComputerReflectionImpactGuitarTimeless Author:Skrillex
“Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators find that virtuous! However, it is a moral problem: you will not fly, learns one with our children. Moreover, these plunders via the Net are carried out in the anonymat.” ChildrenProblemHomeKidsSongCompanyMoralComputerOur ChildrenStoresVirtuousSenatorsPlunderDeputies Author:Jean-Louis Murat
“Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write about computers or, there are car songs, cars are cool. But even in the car songs, it's, ah, usually gets down to me and my baby and my car.” WritingSongCarBabyComputerFemaleMalesBrotherhoodMy BabyMale Female Author:Jeff Barry
“I'm kind of a purist and I actually just want to be a good player, with that said though... I probably should get a little more involved in that as that's what people are doing and making great songs out of their computer so it's kind of like, at what point does purist become arrogance?” PeopleWantShouldKindLittlesDoeSaidSongPlayerInvolvedComputerArrogance Author:The Rocket Summer
“I could go play some songs for two hours every week - play whatever I wanted to - and then also spend that time putting more music on my computer and getting into more things. It definitely informs the way that I think about music and I think in general, made me a more open-minded consumer of music.” ThinkingWayMadeTwoPlayWantedSongHoursWeekComputerConsumersOpen Minded Author:Chris Baio
“All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.” DifferentSongSoundWrittenComputerGuitarAvailableHearingSoftware Author:Jamie Woon
“I have to play really loose versions of songs I've made on the computer.” MadePlaySongComputerVersions Author:Kyle Parker
“I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd put them on the shelf, but that wasn't true. I actually deleted them from my computer. I got sort of trigger-happy and I think I deleted about 200 songs from my computer.” ThinkingSongComputerFinishedShelvesTriggersWebsite Author:Jens Lekman
“Actually, I caught myself thinking that I was hoping for someone to break into my apartment and steal my computer, or a big fire would take place in my apartment, or thinking of uninstalling my firewall so someone could hack into my computer. I just had all these dreams and eventually realized what I needed to do was delete the songs because I really wasn't happy with them. I needed a fresh beginning.” ThinkingDreamBigsSongBreakFireNeededComputerCaughtStealingApartmentHacks Author:Jens Lekman
“Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.” PeopleWayFirstsIdeasJobsSongComputerToolsMachinesWho You AreRevolutionaryApplesPocketsDevicesExtensionsIpods Author:Alex Gibney
“The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore.” WritingSongComputerThings HappenOnlineMusic BusinessAdvent Author:Smokey Robinson
“I got an email from my dad after the Super Bowl, and he was like, "Will you send me all of the Beyoncé Knowles songs that you have on your computer?" I'm like, "You never listen to Beyoncé. I'm so excited right now." It's good to embrace new things. I like when I can show people that it's not all one genre, and everything is very much inspired by everything else.” PeopleSongLike YouDadComputerEmbraceInspiredMy DadExcited Author:Caitlin Rose
“'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.” MeanPersonsFacesSongNextFeltLevelsComputerRuinsNext Day Author:Taylor Swift
“You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.” ThinkingKnowsWantEndsSongCompanyCareersRecordsComputerRecord CompaniesDownloads Author:Jason Aldean
“Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.” FirstsSaidUsedSongBlackWallTenComputerNotesUsed To BeSecondsEnginesOrangeTwistedRipWrecksSoundtracksOld SongMaserati Book:Magic Slays Source: Magic Slays