Dan Hill Quotes

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.

Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

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

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

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 like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

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.

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

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.

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

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

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've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

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

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

Making records should be fun.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

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

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

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

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.