Quotes About Recording

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

I always dress up for recordings.

I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.

'Your Dog' I tried to re-record at my house, like, four times after the studio recordings were done.

I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better.

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

We played with AC/DC. There are actual recordings of us doing 'Johnny B Good' together.

Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats.

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.

I joined my father for recordings when I was 11 or so. By then, I could play a dozen instruments. My first professional recording was around that time. I played the vibraphone for Shankar-Ganesh in a Tamil film.

I'm a huge fan of voice memos. I put down many ideas there and sometimes I even use some of those audio files in my actual recordings. You get this really raw energy from voice memos that you can't get when you sit down in a studio with a microphone. There's this sense of immediacy, which I'm really drawn to.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records.

I was ill in '98. By the end of '99 I was recording and recovering.

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

The recording companies are continuing to look at ways to buy short and sell long. So now they give recording deals to groups of people who we refer to as 'garage bands' - they are amateurs who are bought for nothing and it's really a shame.

While I was recording 'Ziltoid,' the movie 'Mars Attacks' came on TV, I think, six times in one week. So I don't know if there's any direct references or anything, but the aesthetics of that movie was definitely around while I was creating the music, so I'd be lying if I said it wasn't part of it.

I drive everybody crazy when I go into hiding to record... managers, the label, everybody!

Literature is an attempt to influence one's contemporaries through the recording of experience.

I don't sit and write records from start to finish. I write all the time, and when it's time to record you just look and see what songs you've got that could work together as a group thematically.

Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.