Lucinda Williams Quotes

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

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

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.

Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

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

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

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

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.