Chris Squire Quotes

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

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

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.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

I really believe that we're a studio-based band, and I have always thought that.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

I'd write songs like 'One Big Holiday,' and we'd play it and say, 'It's too heavy for 'At Dawn.' Let's save it for the next one.' We had more time for that, but when you mix a song, the general rule of thumb for us is a song a day or usually a day and a half.

Our recordings, you feel that it's been, not labored, but you feel that it's been constructed in a way where sometimes it's hard for us to create the feeling that this was done in a room.

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.

I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.

I am sorry, but recording an album is just hard work; tedious, repetitive, and not very fun at all. Mixing is a bit better, but still pretty boring.

When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

I try and manufacture recordings to sound spontaneous. Then, some things are spontaneous.

The music I make, it's so hard. I listen to it 100,000 times before it even drops.

It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

My best capacity is to edit. If anything, I am a specialist at editing: my usual approach is to record a song very long. In the beginning just jam, jam on and on. Then break the song and play with it.

The bottom line is what we record is what we use. Once we feel we've got a good album, we stop at that. That's usually around 12 tracks.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.