I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live.

I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious…

— Martin Gore

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot…

— Gary Wright

I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you're down there, you're playing in that…

— Jamie Cullum

It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.

— Miles Davis

When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise…

— Phil Collins

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a…

— Miles Davis

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to…

— John Otto

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

— Don Henley

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

— Zaytoven

There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each…

— Isaac Hayes

I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and…

— Karin Dreijer Andersson

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine…

— Teena Marie

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

— Matt Tong

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned…

— Bryan Ferry

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

— Moby