Robert Wilson Quotes

I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

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.

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 know how to make noise; I really do. I'm really good at it.

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 started out with acoustic guitar and loop pedal because I thought I wanted to be Ed Sheeran.

Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.