Thom Yorke Quotes

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer. Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound.

I don't have room in my mind to think about musical equipment.

The rush of creating sounds and mixing sounds is always an interesting challenge, especially for someone like me, who doesn't know about sound.

I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go.

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if you've got information and you want it out there, that is how you go about doing it. I get it.

I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, covering classical pieces, or just making up melodies so I could learn how to use it.

I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

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.

The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.

I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.

My philosophy for producing a record is for everyone involved, including myself, to get out of the way of the song, and at the same time, listen to it as closely as you can, and listen to where the song wants to go.

Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.

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.

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.