Kiri Te Kanawa Quotes

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

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

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

I still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

When I record in a studio. I know that on Tuesday at 3 o'clock I've got to go be creative.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

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

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

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.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

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

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.