Taylor Dayne Quotes

Some artists send their verses, and others record in my studio. Depends. I prefer them being there.

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

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

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

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

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.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

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.

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.

Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

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 have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.

There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

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 really believe that we're a studio-based band, and I have always thought that.