Don Felder Quotes

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.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

Making records should be fun.

My first album was completed in three months.

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

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

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

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.

One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

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

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.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

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 get very deep into the writing and recording process.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.