Kurt Vile Quotes

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

I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.

Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

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

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.

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

I try to listen to as much as possible. I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians, and I need to learn.

I never really thought of music as a particularly social thing. I experienced music through recordings as opposed to concerts. It just makes you think about the way things are put together, the way things are written as opposed to the showbusiness of something onstage, so no regrets there.

I am very conscious of first sampling the music and then getting it out for fans.

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

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

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.

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.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

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

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

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.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.