Bernie Worrell Quotes

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

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

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

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

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

Making records is hard work.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Making records should be fun.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.