Nigel Lythgoe Quotes

I use Auto-Tune but it's not to mask anything. If you come to see me live, I can sing on the spot. Auto-tune is just for the recording. It keeps everything really precise.

There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.

It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

I always wanted to be a singer first.

When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.

People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a stage performer.

Time has changed and artists release more songs in a short span of time and that's where the auto-tune steps-in. One doesn't have to record a song multiple times to make it better.

It's easier to record because technology is advanced. That's why there is a spurt in the number of new singers.

We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because we didn't need a band anymore. We became a duo because of technology.

I think everyone uses Auto-Tune.

People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It's like you have to use auto-detuning or something.

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

We grew up understanding how the analog sound is a driving force for music.

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just don't mime.

We're always recording music, writing songs.