Conventional Quote by Bill Laswell

I feel electronica is spoiling the essence of music.

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

— Nigel Godrich

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when…

— David Byrne

It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and…

— Herbie Hancock

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

— Michelle Shocked

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

— Jimmy Iovine

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

— Taylor Momsen

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

— Michelle Shocked

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

— Stanley Clarke

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

— Tom Waits

You come out of doing that kind of side of electronic music, you're gonna take that knowledge with you and not ignore it. That'd…

— Jez Williams