Syd Quotes

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.

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.

I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't have those for engineering or making beats. I don't know how to use a sampler well. I don't know how to use any of these things.

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

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.

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

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.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

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.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

I can't stand making records.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

I'm a studio rat.

When I got to the NBA, I got a Macbook, and the first thing I did was buy Logic.

If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

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