Drum Machines Quotes

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

— Phil Collins

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

— Don Henley

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

— Matt Tong

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

— Zaytoven

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of…

— Curt Smith

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

— John Otto

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

— Moby

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

— Bryan Ferry

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

— Karin Dreijer Andersson

I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when…

— Mannie Fresh

I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no…

— Rahki

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted…

— Pete Townshend

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

— Gary Wright

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

— Martin Gore

For the second album, 'Discovery,' when we had to think about doing a live show I think we were not happy with…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo