Always Quote by Moby

Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.

— Ty Segall

For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded…

— Aaron Copland

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.

— M. Ward

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's…

— Linda Ronstadt

Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it.

— Jon Hopkins

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to…

— T Bone Burnett

For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find…

— Christian Fennesz

I like making records because it is more relaxed than singing on stage. The problem for me is to find time to prepare for…

— Mirella Freni

To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of…

— Michala Petri

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic…

— M. Ward

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.

— Christian Fennesz