Britt Daniel Quotes

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I tend to have a lot of songs ready for each record I do anyway. I always have. I was thinking, the more you write, the better chance you're going to come up with a collection of stuff that is going to work together.

Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.

Making records is hard work.

I never complete a song until I'm actually going to make a record.

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

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

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

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

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 work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

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

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

A vocal producer is very important, and it's a very important component of an overall successful and good-sounding record.

I like to make great albums.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.