Quotes About Artistry

'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.

I recorded my first song when I was 13, 14 years old, and I've been running with it ever since.

Something will come to me in the middle of the day, and I'll Voice Note it so I don't forget how I felt when the idea came about. I can hear the feeling I had when I first recorded it.

Under my real name, Pepe Sosa, I recorded 'El Mundo' by Jimmy Fontana and 'Ma Vie' by Alain Barrier.

I get really angsty if I've got songs building up and I haven't gotten them recorded.

Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded, I wouldn't even present it to a producer.

Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it.

I've never recorded anyone else's songs. I'm not interested. If you gave me a song by Bono and Edge and promised me a number one hit with it I'd still say no. That, for me, is not the kind of success I want.

No one would ever have heard Marcus Hummon's version of 'Cowboy, Take Me Away' if he hadn't recorded it on the Sampler. I would have heard it because I hear him sing all the time, but no one else would have been able to enjoy it, and now they can and will be able to for years.

It's an amazing privilege to perform for an audience paying to hear the music that you've recorded.

I never recorded the music because I wanted to be a millionaire. I recorded it because I love music.

Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

When I'm finished with a film, I've been living with it, we've been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, 'Ah, it's finished.'

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

Even on our days off, we're basically at the studio recording.

I don't really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

I think what I always want whenever I'm recording is to have even just 2 percent of what the Alabama Shakes have, Brittany Howard.

I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.

I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.