Andrew Sega: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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

Connexion Bizarre interview with Iris, 2009 http://www.connexionbizarre.net/interviews/iris-an-interview-with-andrew-sega-and-reaganjones

Thinking

“Well anyone can make a 'weird' [chord] progression by randomly picking triads.”

Andrew Sega

Static Line interview, 1998

“Religion is a simplistic answer that society has created in order to make people feel better, but there is little evidence as to its validity. There are thousands of religions in the world, each with their own "correct" answers, and each contradicting each other. For now the most sensible explanation to me is that we are the result of a lucky combination of cosmic factors, we're the "mold" that has grown on this particular planet and in a universe as vast as ours, it's expected that somewhere this would happen.”

Andrew Sega

Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

People , World , Religion , Feeling

“Silicon approaches certain fundamental limits; organic bliss is the soul catcher.”

Andrew Sega

Isotoxin author comment, 1995 http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=46539#texts

Soul

“Usually musicians have egos and personality quirks which makes it difficult to form collaborative efforts (for long periods of time, anyways).”

Andrew Sega

Static Line interview, 1998

Effort , Time , Personality

“If anything I probably gravitate to things with great melodies/harmonies, and interesting/syncopated beats.”

Andrew Sega

Connexion Bizarre interview with Iris, 2009

“If someone only ever listens to, say, Nickelback, their opinion [about music taste] is valid but largely meaningless since they don't bring any depth to the discussion :)”

Andrew Sega

Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

Music

“I have a love for cheesy music. I don't want to list any bands and embarrass myself; D”

Andrew Sega

Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

Love , Music

“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.”

Andrew Sega

Static Line interview, 1998

Music

“I find a lot of club music extremely boring.”

Andrew Sega

Gothtronic interview with Iris http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&interviews=899

Music

“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.”

Andrew Sega

Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

Music , Way , Imagination

“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?”

Andrew Sega

"Melodic Structure", Necros, TraxWeekly #15, 1995

Life , Stupidity

“I'd like to see people try to sample the sound less and try to sample the style a bit more. Some people see this sort of 'copying' as offensive… I'm inclined to think the opposite - all music is built on imitation and expansion.”

Andrew Sega

Static Line interview, 1998

People , Music , Thinking

“I'm not a big fan of asynchronicity just for its own sake - a lot of people push rhythmic variation so far that the basic pulse of the music gets lost”

Andrew Sega

and the listener is confused
Static Line interview, 1998

People , Music

“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.”

Andrew Sega

Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

People , Music

“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

Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

World , Art , Music , Thinking

“Some people are like "Oh, I hate guitars." How can you hate a guitar? It makes no sense. It's just an instrument.”

Andrew Sega

AeschTunes interview with Iris http://www.angelfire.com/music5/aeschtunes/interviews/iris.html

Hate , People , Sense

“Sometimes if you polish too much, you rub off the shine.”

Andrew Sega

Static Line interview, 1998

“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.”

Andrew Sega

Static Line interview, 1998

Feeling , Thinking

“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..”

Andrew Sega

Andrew Sega Shrine interview, 2011

Music