Miles Davis Quotes

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.

A lot of my vocals were the first time I ever sang the song.

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

Making records should be fun.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

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.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.