James Iha Quotes

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career.

Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.

I love being in the studio.

I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.

All I know is record, record, record, record.

When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.

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

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

I consider the recording studio where I was born.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

I love recording music.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

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

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.