Peter Hook Quotes

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

My partners are Gourov Dasgupta and Roshan Balu. Together, we're 'Superbia'. I've already signed some film and non-film assignments.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

I can't stand making records.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

'Trouble Maker' was a project that worked whenever a song that fit the concept came in.

The TV show 'How It's Made' brings the intricate details of assembly lines to numerous North American living rooms. But if the series were to ever branch into exposing the secrets of music production, Colin Stetson's 'New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges' would make for a mind-bending episode.

I design music; I don't produce it.

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or 'I am feeling that' then I write it down and we just continue building the album from there.

This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.

I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

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.

Making records should be fun.

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

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

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

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

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.