Max Martin Quotes

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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'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.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

I'm a studio rat.

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

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

Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the opportunity to collaborate with that many people, like in rock or jazz.

It's like I've been in music school my whole life.

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

This new project, 'Excursions,' has been a trip down my own memory lane before 'Minecraft,' when I aspired to create music I could hear on a commute to dance to.

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 always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

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

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.