"I wanna write some music on the piano, but I've gotta be able to do it whenever I want. I need a keyboard, 'cause I need to be able to put my headphones on and play to my heart's content."
"You're much less likely to develop this bias like oh these notes are the right notes and these notes are the wrong notes or whatever because you're just kind of trying stuff and seeing how it sounds."
"One of the greatest challenges and privileges of being a musician is the process of learning how to alchemize the forces in your life to create with."
"I made some different length versions of the sound and then I stretched... so it was functioning musically."
"A good sample should help reimagine or re-interpret a song, and simultaneously worldbuild for the artist’s own song."
"I'm happy that we were able to do more songs on this new EP."
"I love when people find one good accommodating instrument like just the music box and the vocals creates it's a vibe right away."
"You have to take chances with music, otherwise, it won't grow."
"Black hole sounds, if you're a musician, please use that in a sample for a song."
"Try it with your basses, your melodies, and all sorts of stuff."
"Every lyric, every sentiment, every between-the-line thing, every even all of the music, everything that Ro and Angel and Giddy and all of these guys did is so elevated."
"It really is an amazing tool for crafting exactly the sound that you want to hear from your guitar."
"My whole drum set is like a keyboard, it's like I can play melodies and songs by myself."
"Let's get out there and make some great music!"
"Let's see if the boy flow, you know what I'm saying, like our campaign."
"You don't need to have this big keyboard or outboard gear next to you, just try, go for it."
"Trust me, I'm always looking at those top songs and I'm like okay, how do I make a better version?"
"Trent Reznor truly is one of the most creative musicians of our generation."
"Just because I make some hard [ __ ], you know what I'm saying like damn, I want to put this out you know what I'm saying."
"Having your song remixed is such like it is is like an honor because you know someone finds something inspiring your song that they kind of want to like should transform into something new."
"Wow, that's creepy as this place is. I'm getting serious musical inspiration."
"This is your time. This is the time that everybody's been looking for to work on music and get better."
"Showing that you can come from the emo pop-punk world but do something larger than life."
"Sergeant Pepper's furthered the idea of the studio as a creative instrument."
"Feels like the words are just spilling out of him."
"You can even have a melody where none of the notes are part of the chords that they're played with."
"He was concerned about the weak being taken advantage of by the elite."
"Artists are vessels from which music comes through."
"Morrissey's attitude is if you can hear the sound in your head then it can be played."
"If you like to sculpt your own sounds as opposed to scrolling through sample directories, Syntax will be a synth heaven for you."
"Creatively, musically, artistically, Drake isn't even close."
"The minute you start adding accents, it kind of makes it sound more like a groove instead of just a total mess of noise."
"Drake began dabbling with writing his own music in a notebook."
"The thing I think is cool is finger drumming."
"We recorded once. I make a song in like 30, 40 minutes. But when I got in with Juice, he did that [ __ ] in four minutes."
"Try displacing the snare for an added groove."
"Whatever music we make when we're in that room together is death from above."
"Rhythm games more often than not are a gold when it comes to music."
"He just be in disbelief like how quickly he just put that [__] together, that ain't normal bro."
"Actively I'm tracking apparitions in my veins, check my swing, ghosts right 'cause I'm a lefty."
"I pick up my guitar and I start playing I've no idea what's gonna come out didn't plan anything it's totally spontaneous."
"Just the fact that he sort of conceived this track and orchestrated it and pulled it all together, I think is sort of another stroke of genius for him."
"Apparently that wasn't enough because we went and did two more songs and I'm releasing like four new songs today."
"For me, real songwriting starts with an instrument and a vocal."
"I want to be able to create techno, electro, soul, funk, every music that I like."
"He's really good at taking a simple kind of chord sequence or whatever and adding just enough spice to keep it interesting and put his own touch on it."
"The iconic early video game melodies were born out of resistance."
"Glory Hallelujah is way more fire than glorilla as a rap name. Glory Hallelujah, it'll be a good gospel night, no any name period. You still a child of God. Hallelujah, yes and how I wrap, yes, why not who you are regardless."
"To have a song that's supposed to be in 4/4 and put it in 3/4, or vice versa."
"The modes each have a unique sound and they are used by composers and songwriters to create different colors in their music."
"I want to get you away from the written music so that you can start to create music on your own using all kinds of patterns and arrangements of notes that come from your own ear, from your own brain, from your own heart."
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"...put into our solos to make them more interested and interesting and have some organization inside of there too."
"And it's great for controlling the musical instruments you play in Garage Band."
"Love it when she mashes up her music."
"I strive to do things I haven't done before and my wish is to surprise myself with some of my songs."
"When you make music, you should always be trying to make something that doesn't exist yet."
"The creative opportunity in just being able to pitch bend notes within a held chord are just unbelievably awesome."
"I embrace mistakes; most of my songs are written by mistakes. All the good stuff in the solos are mistakes."
"It's got a speaker built inside; you can actually run all of the effects, you can run drum tracks, loops, create, you can record, you can do everything in the guitar."
"I love slides, and so it's cool to hear when people are able to use slides creatively in their actual songs."
"It does inspire you to play a little bit differently."
"Some of the greatest musicians I've worked with… want to play, be creative."
"With a little musical acumen, he could be playing like a really sweet lighting show just by tapping between different presets."
"Getting something like this that's limited can be a really cool way to change your workflow, to change the way you think, change the way you sit down and make music."
"This is just super saiyan mode for melodies."
"It is a happy accident machine. You just noodle and you get oodles of good songs."
"What he wanted was something that really could get the best of rock, the best of pop, the best of classical, mix it together."
"You can do all sorts of rhythms, and it really comes down to your creativity."
"I want you to be able to create awesome parts, interact with other instruments, and feel creative and improvisatory when you're playing songs."
"We did whatever we wanted musically, we experimented with sound, we took massive risks in the studio."
"I'm not looking for the quote-unquote 'right way' to do everything, I just listen and if it sounds good then I keep using it."
"They would play songs in the theater they had written, like 'Robin Hood in Reverse' about inequality."
"Playing on a musical instrument has a very complex creative side and many people have proved that in all kinds of music."
"Once again, George comes up with that great riff... and 'I'll Be Back' right on the spot in the studio."
"Tom is a Harvard graduate, but he's also one of the most creative guitarists of all time."
"These strings that Molly created are just absolutely incredible; they invite so much opportunity and creativity."
"The important strings are the E and the A; they're the anchor points of anything cool that you're going to end up doing."
"You can seriously go crazy with the effects on these guitars, and it's usually going to sound very unique but still going to sound good at the same time."
"Rhythmic vocabulary is your ability to think of interesting rhythms."
"I wanted to write the ultimate sex in the car song."
"He always has a way to craft these really ugly sounds into something beautiful."
"The way they kind of bridge these things together as extensions of songs or intros into songs is really interesting."
"Thousands upon thousands of samples, loops, and presets all coexisting in an open-ended rack to let you combine them however you want to sound like you."
"You can more or less play any notes you want, even notes outside of the scale."
"Describe a musical idea and hear it come to life."
"There's a huge amount of progressions for your chords, single chord ideas, everything you could imagine."
"I'm also going to show you the tools so that you can use all of those things to improvise with."
"You can add more chord colors when you free up a note in your left hand."
"The way they lead you into the bridge is so crazy, it's one of the most creative things I've heard."
"Bernie made music out of anything: birds singing, leaves rustling in the trees, cars driving over cracks in the road."
"Hopefully, you can start thinking, 'Oh okay, so I can see now how you can work some of those licks in if you're playing along with a song that's got a driving rhythm.'"
"I'm improvising till the last note, I'mma keep it mad dope."
"This wonderful world of new sounds you can make on the guitar... they're so magical and ripe for music making."