Kevin Parker Quotes

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

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.

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

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.

I don't know, whenever someone was like, 'Yeah, I'm going to the studio,' I just went with them. And I started recording.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

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

Making records should be fun.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I can't stand making records.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

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

It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.

A lot of people hear things on the radio and try to make their own version of that.

I design music; I don't produce it.

My first love is making records, and whatever's necessary in order for me to achieve that, I'll learn how to do it.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

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