The Miz Quotes

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.

I've got quite a loud voice.

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

I'm really loud. I can't sing softly.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.

We always did our own mixing.

I've been called 'the father of loud.'

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

I don’t care how annoying or loud I am. It’s important to be loud.

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

I know how to be loud.

You can't take me for granted!

Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it.

Radio or no radio, I just like the way records sound when the drums and vocals are loud.

I swear, there is Capitol Studios and then there's every other studio on the planet Earth. It is the ultimate, paramount of sound in the United States of America. It is a magical place.

Communicating and being loud is a big part of my game.