Adrianne Lenker Quotes

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

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

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

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

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

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

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

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 don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

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

It's always been difficult to make a good record.

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

I love doing instrumental records; I love doing that.

I've always wanted to make songs.

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.

I think, with production, I pay very close attention. 'Cause that's my favorite thing in music. That's the whole drive. That's the reason.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

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.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.