Quotes About Recording industry

In the late 1960s, English artists like the Rolling Stones and Joe Cocker began recording in the States, and at that point, they realised, 'We can get real African-American voices on our records; we don't have to pretend any more.'

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field

I knew The Who because Id worked with Shel Talmy and engineered 'My Generation' and all that early stuff.

The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful Capital pretty much wanted to hear nothing but 'Go All The Way.'

Money definitely does not equal success in recording.

I think the recording industry is founded on that principle: to approximate the live experience, to approximate that thing that evaporates as it's happening, disappears as it's happening.

Everything has changed since I started recording in 1972. But the very things that have opened this industry, like the digital platforms to reach more people, have also killed things that were happening before in the recording studio. Now, most of the time, there are no real musicians in the studio; it's people with sequencers and things.

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

With a Grammy, if you're releasing your record with a major label, you have a chance with any record. You also have a very long shot with every record.

Today's singers don't have the time and are very restless and they want to record and just run away.

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.