Gerry Beckley Quotes

With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

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

When I'm in a session with an artist, my job is to help execute their vision - so it's whatever story they're telling, and the news doesn't specifically affect that.

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

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

I have been recording for five decades now.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.

I can't stand making records.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

That's one of the reason T-Bone Burnett calls me... he thinks I'm used to doing what I do in the studio for him.

I'm very influenced by the work of George Martin and the string arrangements that he did for the Beatles.

From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.

I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.

Working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis was crazy.

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

Salim-Sulaiman have always been my favourite. It's just an absolute pleasure working with them, and there's always something new you get to learn just by sitting in their studio and absorbing all that's happening around you.

With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

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 wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.