Art & Creativity Quote by Gary Numan

There’s a weary clarity in Gary Numan’s line, the kind you only earn by staying in a scene long enough to watch it romanticize you, mock you, and then quietly steal your ideas. “This kind of music” isn’t just synths or machines; it’s the choice to align yourself with a sound that audiences and gatekeepers often treat as suspect: too cold, too artificial, too “not real” compared to guitar-rock authenticity myths. Numan’s genius is how plainly he frames it. No plea for understanding, no manifesto. Just the shrug of someone who’s already done the argument and found it boring.

“Accept the facts” reads like armor. The subtext is survival: if you make electronic music, you accept being misunderstood, typecast, and periodically declared obsolete. You accept the press treating your tools as a gimmick, the public pinning your work to a trend cycle, and the industry rewarding you only when it needs a futuristic costume. Numan came up when synthesizers were both novelty and threat; he also lived through the backlash when “robot music” became an easy punchline. That history sits behind the sentence like a scar.

What makes it work is its refusal of melodrama. He’s not asking permission to belong. He’s telling you belonging was never the point. The decision is the commitment; the consequences are part of the instrument.