Jake Shears Quotes

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Who are critics? Do they know about music? Have they proved themselves in the field? I remember, when we came up with the music of 'Dil Chahta Hai,' some of the critics said that the songs sounded like jingles.

There's no album in 2016 that's better than my album.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

I love Lady Gaga, Rihanna - all the pop girls like Katy Perry. I think Miley Cyrus is very talented, too. Apart from the visuals, which you may like or not like, but her music is quite good, actually. 'Wrecking Ball' is quite a good song, and she sang it really nicely.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.