I don’t know why people keep making new [microphones], because they aren’t accomplishing anything.

- Bob Paquette

We usually don’t like the well-tuned, great new drums with no flaws. I’m more into crappy sounds.

- Björn Yttling

If it sounds good, it is good.

- Just about any man worth his salt

Being in the studio shouldn’t be trying to capture what you play. There should be a certain amount of playfulness and experimentation to the possibilities of what you have when you’re in a place where you can actually take a moment and have it exist on a piece of tape that can be manipulated and stuff.

- John Frusciante

What kind of mic is 1/32 of the entire question. What kind of pick, what kind of strings, what kind of guitar… Just the guitarist moving the right hand closer to the bridge alters the sound.

- Scott Solter

If I had to choose between live musicians or La Machine [Synclavier], I must admit, from time to time I’m almost tempted to opt for the “human element.”

- Frank Zappa

In writing, if you can discard the slogans that naturally come to you, especially in a highly politicized time like we are now [...] these times are very difficult to write in because the slogans are jamming the airwaves.

- Leonard Cohen

When composing, every chord corresponds to a compulsive urge, prompted by a need to express myself.

- Susanne Rode-Breymann

We don’t need 120 musicians; it’s ridiculous. I can do the same thing with four loudspeakers!

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

I don’t think there’s anything muddy about the APIs. They’re muscular in the mids, but lean like Bruce Lee, as opposed to flabby like George Foreman

- hurricaneE on Gearslutz