Steve Burns Quotes

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

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

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

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 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.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I write my music.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe 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 was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

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.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.