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Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.

— Serge Schmemann

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

— David Byrne

Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.

— Jason Moran

Most of today's music is done electronically.

— Klaus Schulze

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!

— Eva Green

For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

— Flume

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

— Chico Hamilton

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

— Tom Waits

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

— Adam Sandler

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

— Bill Laswell

✗Opposing Perspectives

Music is the silence between the notes.

— Claude Debussy