Ray Davies Quotes

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

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

With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

When I was about 17 or 18, I would go through my boy's garage and they had a little studio set up. I would just play around there.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

I love the studio. I love writing and producing both for us and for other people.

At the end of the day I'm not just sending beats in. I'm mixing the song. I'm recording the song. I'm engineering the song. I'm in the studio helping with the songwriting. I'm doing the whole beat - every single piece of it is me.

I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

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.

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

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

I have been recording for five decades now.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

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

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.