“The way I make music is just a reflection of how I think music should be made. Where you sit in a studio, and you make music, and you use technology to your advantage, not to hide all the blaring mistakes.” ThinkingWayShouldMadeUseMistakeTechnologyMusic IsReflectionAdvantageStudios Author:Corey Taylor
“Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.” ArtUsedTechnologyMusic IsToolsEvolveTiedElectronic Music Author:Richie Hawtin
“Once you find your own sound, you find the strength and courage to stay true to that. Keep going even in moments when you're not blazing on fire and relevant with everyone around you. It's because you love to make music. It's making sure that the music isn't about the technology and tools, but truly about the music. Because that's how humanity and the soul are communicated. The soul is the true tool.” SoulMomentsHumanitySoundTechnologyFireMusic IsToolsKeep GoingRelevantStay TrueBlazing Author:Richie Hawtin
“The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.” KnowsIdeasTechnologyKnow HowExpressionMusic IsBuiltInstrumentsHyperBeing Played Author:Tod Machover
“Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.” WorldLoveLanguageMusicTechnologyOur LivesMysteryMusic IsLaughterUniversalImportanceMissionsPreservesCommerceUniversal LanguageLanguage Of Love Author:Alicia Keys
“Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.” ArtStatesFormCultureGrowsTechnologyChangedIntegrityMusic IsEssenceDown AndHip HopHipsHopsGreat Art Author:One9
“Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.” WorldHardFactsTechnologyHeardRocksMusic IsSquaresSophisticatedRock Music Book:Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value Source: Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value
“I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.” KnowsWayLooksSidesTechnologyConversationMusicianMusic IsToolsFlip Author:DJ /rupture
“We think of music as this substance that flows - you turn on the tap, and there it is, streaming off your computer - but that's not how we evolved as a species. We evolved to listen to each other, and the reason we're able to listen to music in the terms is talking about is because we're really good at listening to each other. But this kind of technology has allowed us to forget that music is the sound of each other.” ThinkingKindReasonTermForgetTechnologyListeningComputerMusic IsListening To MusicStreaming Author:Vijay Iyer
“It's a video world now, you know? It's not a musical world. It's a video world. I can watch videos. I see videos, you know, Britney Spears, she's sexy. I like to watch her videos. It's not like the music is what I'm hearing. It's different now. But it's not my world. It's the world of young people and they have what they want and they have what the technology and the society produces as a result of all these advancements that have occurred. And the in the future we'll have something else. Maybe we'll have holograms and, you know, all kinds of stuff.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentTechnologyMusic IsMusicalSexyAll Kinds Author:Don McLean