Andrew Sega quotes

I think as a musician you really have to have a wide variety of tastes, or else you will unconsciously get into a rut. (Andrew Sega)
Silicon approaches certain fundamental limits; organic bliss is the soul catcher. View quote
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Usually musicians have egos and personality quirks which makes it difficult to form collaborative efforts (for long periods of time, anyways). View quote
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If anything I probably gravitate to things with great melodies/harmonies, and interesting/syncopated beats. View quote
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I have a love for cheesy music. I don't want to list any bands and embarrass myself; D. View quote
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I try to avoid categorizing music as much as I can, though. Everyone steals so much from everyone else these days, the lines between genres are very washed-out. View quote
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I find a lot of club music extremely boring. View quote
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Imagine presenting a Nirvana or BT track to someone from the 1850's, they would probably see it as noise and not much else. Society as a whole has a much more nuanced and wide view of what music can be now. It still usually contains various rhythmic, melodic, and vocal components, but they can be combined in so many interesting ways now. View quote
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One of the most common failings [when writing a drum track] is repetition. Nobody wants to hear that same stupid 16-line bass-snare pattern throughout the WHOLE song. Didn't your mother ever teach you that variety is the spice of life? View quote
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If someone gave me a million dollars to run a music label, I would focus on creating a specific artistic point of view, and creating some channel to build a fanbase. Warp Records was a great example of a label that had a particular style, and many people would buy records just because the artists were associated with the label. View quote
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There may not be a high-level purpose for humanity, but that doesn't mean we can't find inspiration in the world. I think there is a combination of psychological and environmental factors that combine to create various urges in humanity -- most importantly the urge to create, to contribute something to the world, to express your personal worldview and see how the world responds. Art doesn't happen in a vacuum, and if it were only for personal gain then nobody would ever release music to the public. The process changes you, and also changes the world itself, creating ripples of inspiration which flow between the artist and the listener. (Andrew Sega)
Some people are like "Oh, I hate guitars." How can you hate a guitar? It makes no sense. It's just an instrument. View quote
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Sometimes if you polish too much, you rub off the shine. View quote
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I think that the public judges a song on the overall feel, not individual samples. If a sample contributes too heavily to the song, and the sample is recognized, the opinion of the piece goes down. View quote
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Certainly there are songs out there that are massively popular, and you can use some reverse analysis to see how they're put together, but it's difficult to reliably engineer a "hit". Add to this the constantly swirling winds of cultural taste, and you can see that the music industry is more akin to playing the lottery than anything else. Having some talent or taste can give you a bit of an edge, but it's still a huge roulette wheel.. View quote
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I love philosophy. It's fascinating to try to discover how perception, or experience, or memory works. I've always been a diehard relativist at heart, and I find it very interesting to read other people's philosophical ideas and how they see the world through their particular lens. View quote
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A song is not just a collection of melodic riffs, it is an emotional statement. View quote
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I feel that music is the art which can best express the emotions which flow within us. It conveys something bigger than it is. View quote
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If I was obsessed with making money off of my music, I wouldn't have released it for free on the internet for the last 5 years. View quote
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The problem these days is again just the sheer amount of music available, and that music isn't as important an experience in people's lives in the 21st century as it was previously. View quote
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I think we'll soon see a new breed of musicians who have both a modern chordal sense (jazz) and a high comfort level with synthesizers and new breeds of sounds (from the electronica/techno/dj scene). (Andrew Sega)
Ideally, a song should contain both elements of high melodic tension, and low melodic tension. No listener wants to sit through a totally high-energy 180 BPM non-stop 6-minute ride through synth mania unless they are already busy grooving madly on some dance floor in a smoky club somewhere. Also, unless your listener is on heavy sedation, he or she will not enjoy your sparse 18-minute ambient tune which consists of the same languid piano riff repeated over and over again. View quote
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A lot of [my] songs have various strange oddities in them - usually this is the result of late-night dementia. View quote
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There's a big difference between playing shows for fun, and playing shows because you're in desperate need of the money. View quote
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To impact someone emotionally, [a musical piece] has to contain "interesting" melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic content, and what defines "interesting" is up to the listener. View quote
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