Alan Parsons Quotes

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

We grew up understanding how the analog sound is a driving force for music.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

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

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

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

I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.

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

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music.

Berklee played a huge role in shaping my music. On an academic level, I learned a lot about vocal technique and culture. Since my major was Music Production and Engineering, I got a good handle on the technical and creative aspects of making a record.

'Brace the Wave' is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment.

My high school was what crafted my interest in recording.

I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.