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I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.

— Bill Dixon

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✓Similar Perspectives

I play vinyl and CDs. Playing vinyl is the best sound quality you can get playing music loudly, so that's the main reason I do that.

— Jamie xx

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

— Bill Bruford

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

— Billy Joel

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

— Elliott Carter

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

— Sting

I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

— Gary Lucas

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

— Steve Vai

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

✗Opposing Perspectives

Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used to go in, open the microphone and say the first thing that came into my head.

— Terry Wogan

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

— T Bone Burnett