Electrasy Quotes

“A good producer knows how to capture the best performances from musicians, create a cohesive sound, and make a record that sounds great on different playback systems. That’s really important with a band like Electrasy because they needed to transfer their raw, live power to radio, TV, and different formats.”
― Pete Trainor, Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers

“The music I was listening to on that particular day outside Small World triggered me and I got this insane influx of what I guess was dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and other neurochemicals that just made me feel so good. I think we call it fandom, and it’s a very addictive drug once you get it in the bloodstream.”
― Pete Trainor, Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers

“Memories are meaningless without emotion, and aside from love and drugs, nothing spurs an emotional reaction like music.”
― Pete Trainor, Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers

“In today's world, we find ourselves surrounded by an abundance of identities that we can choose and embody. The world we live in allows individuals to explore and express their unique perspectives, experiences, and social affiliations. But back in the 1980s and 1990s of Somerset and the South West it was a stark contrast. Society seemed more homogeneous, with limited recognition and exploration of diverse identities. We’d been boxed in and characterised by a more constrained and traditional understanding of identity. Societal norms largely dictated what was considered acceptable, and there was often little room for deviation from these norms.”
― Pete Trainor, Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers

“When you come from small towns in small counties you know deep down that success in any form isn’t going to come easily, which is why we steered clear of thinking too much about it.”
― Pete Trainor, Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers

“I’ve always thought it is important to keep kids focused and fascinated by some kind of music. Listening and learning about it involves, and evolves several really important cognitive processes such as memory, attention, and spatial reasoning. Performing also creates confidence. Because I wasn’t a performer, and I was very much an introvert, I think I gravitated towards absorbing entertainment rather than being it.”
― Pete Trainor, Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers

“Over the last few decades there have been some fascinating studies that revealed that people who get a physical reaction from music might have structural differences in their brain. Some people have a physical response while others will just hear the songs, enjoy it, but it doesn’t transport them anywhere. Brain scans have shown that the people who get a more palpable response have a higher volume of fibres that connect their auditory cortex to the areas associated with emotional processing, which means the two areas communicate better. They also tend to have a higher prefrontal cortex, which is involved in certain areas of understanding, like interpreting the world more metaphorically, and that obviously helps them develop not just a natural gift interpreting music, but also creating it.”
― Pete Trainor, Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers

“I loved sitting in that Somerset fog of ignorance because all our dreams centred on making that little bit of the world better, rather than us taking on the world.”
― Pete Trainor, Electrasy: Calling All The Dreamers