Quotes About Recording

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.

But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made 'Rack City' and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.

I recorded my first song, 'Greetings,' and it got so much attention on SoundCloud. I was not expecting that.

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.

The first song I ever had recorded by another artist was a song called 'Surefire Feeling' by Jake Owen.

I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded by a lot of people, but it was basically childhood memory.

When I recorded 'Sun,' I wanted to do something with more of a modern sound. I've never done anything like it, and it was fun for me to sing, but I'm not really a dance person per se. However, I would love to hear that song in the club. I think it's a really good dance song.

We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in.

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.

I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.

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