Ginger Baker Quotes

My first album was completed in three months.

One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

I stay in the studio. I'm a studio junkie.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.

The first Vampire Weekend record was the first full-length album that I produced.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

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

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.