Miroslav Vitous Quotes

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

I love the magic of the studio.

I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.

TTS was the unit that I was directly involved with the productions, and I'm still really, really proud of what we had put together, not just visually but musically at that time and age.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me, it's all about find the people that can help make my vision come true.

I love making soundtracks for video games, because it is a completely different challenge, and I get to do something different.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

My high school was what crafted my interest in recording.

My favourite thing to do as an artist is record. It's a super therapeutic thing for me. Not to sound corny, but it literally is a stress relief for me.

We grew up understanding how the analog sound is a driving force for music.

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

I think I make good beats, but when it's not mastered correctly, it can definitely make it sound like it's not a good beat, and that has been an issue sometimes with me in the past.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.