o00o Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 "We went to a label in Manchester that distributed XL. The guy there was like, “Yeah, you need to measure it up more squared like every 16 bars, maybe get a vocal loop in there, maybe a rock stab would be fresh.” And we’re thinking, “Shut up! This isn’t what we do.” The best thing he said was, “It reminds me of Brian Eno.” But that was an insult from him." -Rob Brown Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide o00o's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidphakist Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 "Orange" -BoC Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide acidphakist's signature Hide all signatures music Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1261777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 (edited) . Edited March 6, 2010 by troon Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1261796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JohnTqs Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 (edited) eh Edited March 6, 2010 by JohnTqs Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1262431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blanket Fort Collapse Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 "me plus you baby girl lets add and we never divide and we just subtract" "and my flow is so tip top notch cause im on my raps like a hip hop cop" - lil wayne Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1262473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest e440hz Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1262501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 (edited) the quote by the guy who owns Touch records inspired me recently to do exactly what he said musicians shouldn't do Edited March 6, 2010 by Awepittance Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide awepittance's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1262508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 More bass -Me Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1262517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 I mostly get inspiration from colors. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide Braintree's signature Hide all signatures colindyer.bandcamp.com williamsbraintree.bandcamp.com Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1262541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted March 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 On 3/6/2010 at 10:42 AM, Awepittance said: the quote by the guy who owns Touch records inspired me recently to do exactly what he said musicians shouldn't do what was it? Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide o00o's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1262555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
foresense Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 (edited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVsDIv98TA oh and "do something", saw that floating by on BoC myspace stream sometime Edited March 6, 2010 by forlon Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide foresense's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1262563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QBLA Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 not really a quote, but on the receiving end of a critique from some wine sipping bastard at an art gallery that was just talking shit about everything in the gallery: "you're not a musician... you're a sound designer!" i was like... that's coo! and walked away. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide QBLA's signature Hide all signatures BONDING TAPES JOYFUL UNION CASSETTE BLOG ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1262852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 "baby police" Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide Ragnar's signature Hide all signatures http://djsaint-hubert.bandcamp.com/ Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1264164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 "I've done loads of secret things. There are quite a few that no one has come close to guessing. But then, a lot of people think everything electronic is mine. I get credited for so many things, it's incredible. I'm practically everyone, I reckon — everyone and nobody." -Richard D. James Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1264238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 sorry i don't really have a quote, but i like these articles about the early idm artists setting up studios in their bedrooms... i've heard that from aphex twin, luke vibert and mike paradinas Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide YEK's signature Hide all signatures Reveal hidden contents !:/music Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1264306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maus Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 i'm a fan of eno's oblique strategies... i don't know if you'd call them 'quotes', necessarily, but they're the same ilk, and if you're stuck on a project, they can definitely help point you in a new direction. they're very open-to-interpretation and can work for more than just music, however. good online version: http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/oblique/oblique.html Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1264469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the anonymous forumite Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 On 3/6/2010 at 10:42 AM, Awepittance said: the quote by the guy who owns Touch records inspired me recently to do exactly what he said musicians shouldn't do But can you quote it though ? Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1264551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 no i tried to find it and i don't want to paraphrase Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide awepittance's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1264583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 "This thing I’ve been thinking about recently is how to fuse acoustic sounds, like piano and stuff, with really brutal electronics, but without making the electronics have that sort of plasticy sound, which I think they often can do in a really bad way in my mind, and it doesn’t complement the acoustic sounds. When I hear stuff like that it’s like tasting some really weird combination of food, like tasting porridge with garlic in it. So I’m trying to make stuff more homogenous, and I find samplers work really well with that. I don’t know why, I don’t know if it’s just an aesthetic thing, like the way they look, but when you start changing bit rates and making stuff sound more crusty it tends to also make it sound more natural and I really strive for that I guess, stuff that sounds a bit damaged and gnarly." -Chris Clark Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1264697 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 (edited) clark quotes: Reveal hidden contents Quote What inspires you to compose?"I guess part of it comes from feeling dissatisfied, like life would be completely cheap and grim and oppressive without music. If your life was fine and you were content then you wouldn’t bother writing. It comes from mainly wanting to build these internal struggles, almost like mazes, within yourself, just so you can find your way out of them. I guess on one level it is entirely an irrational impulse." Quote "The drums were made from a combination of domestic sounds — scissors, doors, chairs — that created a backdrop for other 808 and 909 hits. Then these were put through the mash factory several hundreds of times. The bones were baked, the brittle ones were sorted from the juicy, tough ones. No, but seriously, I think most of the drums were put through all sorts of things that changed the dynamics and made them more fluid. Most "tidy" engineers like to separate each drum track out and have it perfectly EQed. Although this is admirable in a sort of old skool watch-your-grandma-knit-you-a-nice-beige-sweater sort of way, I find it doesn’t excite me. What I tend to do is just jam stuff through as many boxes as I can, until everything sort of bleeds into itself and all its surrounding parts. You can combine the artifacts introduced through the mess of all these boxes, like the background noise and the crackling desk, etc, and then just remove it all until you end up with some weird goblin drowning in an acid sort of squawk. Then maybe you could feed this back into a microphone, put this through a compressor, then put this through another noise gate inside of the sequencer that is being triggered by the delay of some granular pad sound and then maybe when this delay has it feedback rate changed it might trigger something else like a hi hat or a toilet flushing or a sample of someone having an orgasm or something. So, you see, it really ends up being quite a grey area and it can be hard to remember how or why I made my sounds in the way that I did. The processes lose their novelty, and thus lose their importance as singular, autonomous techniques. They feed into each other and often are contradicted by other "themes" within a track. So they inevitably become tiny bit parts in the wider picture of the work that I am assembling." On 3/9/2010 at 4:35 AM, troon said: "This thing I’ve been thinking about recently is how to fuse acoustic sounds, like piano and stuff, with really brutal electronics, but without making the electronics have that sort of plasticy sound, which I think they often can do in a really bad way in my mind, and it doesn’t complement the acoustic sounds. When I hear stuff like that it’s like tasting some really weird combination of food, like tasting porridge with garlic in it. So I’m trying to make stuff more homogenous, and I find samplers work really well with that. I don’t know why, I don’t know if it’s just an aesthetic thing, like the way they look, but when you start changing bit rates and making stuff sound more crusty it tends to also make it sound more natural and I really strive for that I guess, stuff that sounds a bit damaged and gnarly." -Chris Clark chris clark: mic'd drum kit touched up with a faux-rust sonic exterior Edited March 11, 2010 by hahathhat Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1267161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalumVaughan Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 ' Too many sheep and not enough shepherds. Let's all sit back and have a long hard think, then make something different! We can all do it, surely?' -Richard D. James Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide CalumVaughan's signature Hide all signatures My Last.fm Page Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1268148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted March 13, 2010 Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 http://www.electronicmusing.com/blog/category/inspiring-interviews/ Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1268744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 "A good composer does not imitate; he steals." Igor Stravinsky Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide awepittance's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1268911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SecondaryCell Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 "The concern of the musician is music. The concern of the professional musician is business. Never become a professional musician unless you have no other choice." -Robert Fripp Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1268979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the anonymous forumite Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 On 3/14/2010 at 2:13 AM, Awepittance said: "A good composer does not imitate; he steals." Igor Stravinsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/54030-post-quotes-that-helped-to-push-your-creativity/#findComment-1269437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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