Joanna Newsom Quotes

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I love recording music.

I can't stand making records.

I've always loved music and loved recording.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

Making records is not brain surgery.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

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

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

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.

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

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

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

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.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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 record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.