Tommy Lee Quotes

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I can't stand making records.

To me, making records isn't work.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.

I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

I love the studio. I love writing and producing both for us and for other people.

The first musical stuff I worked on was after the tour for 'Swing Lo Magellan' had ended and I didn't really know what else to do. I didn't know what music I would write. I just did work for other people - arranging, producing, writing - and all of that seemed to be in L.A.

I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.

We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

Making records should be fun.

I have been recording for five decades now.

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.