Technology Quotes

World Record" has a looseness and a spontaneity that's rare in new recordings. It reminds me a little of listening to old 78-r.p.m. records-most early recording artists had just one three-minute shot in front of the microphone, and sometimes things got a little wild, a little free. How do you purposefully cultivate that feeling in the studio?

Because the record companies, in their ultimate wisdom, seeing what a great thing digital was, they sold all the places where they made records. Now people want records and they haven't got a facility to make them in, so it takes months and months and months to get vinyl. Vinyl is ultimately much better.

We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

Anyone can make something with technology, but we've been a band for 20 years-it isn't algorithmic.

What people really want is remarkable stuff that doesn't require a lot of technology.

The synthesis of art and technology has now been going on for so long. You can watch a film with incredible CGI where King Kong kills a thing and it doesn't even move you because you take everything for granted.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We've been doing great in the streaming market, so it's not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They're treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.