Basic Quote by Tod Machover

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

— Tod Machover

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

— Claude Debussy

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

— Tommy Bolin

To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations…

— Iannis Xenakis

All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound…

— Woody Norris

The smaller the instrument or more hidden it is such as electronics, the more esoteric it becomes and in my mind becomes boring watching…

— Dan Deacon

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

— Amos Oz

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.

— Patrick Wolf

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

— Manuel de Falla

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws…

— Jane Siberry

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

— Annie E. Clark

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

— Mike Shinoda