Matisyahu Quotes

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

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it's a totally different creative environment to the 'bedroom recordings' I'd done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone.

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

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.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

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

I love the magic of the studio.

Making records should be fun.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

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

I like to make great albums.

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.

One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

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

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.