Zakk Wylde Quotes

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

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

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.