Benmont Tench 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.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

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

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.

It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.

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

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

I'm not a full-fledged producer, but I can be one if I want to really spend my time on straight being a producer.

There is a whole team behind the success of a film song.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

I'm a producer at heart.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

When you make a record, you get to live in an imaginary world where you have the best kind of band on every song.

I don't want to be on the mic, man. I want to stay producing.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

Madlib isn't a beatmaker, he's a producer.

It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since.