Conor Oberst Quotes

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

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

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

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

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

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

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

On our first record, man, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just playing. I was over playing. You're as green as you can be with no experience in recording or knowing how sometimes a song can work: when it's too much, when it's not enough, when it's not right.

I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

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.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.

Penn and I want to write a record together.

I am always thinking about records I want to make.

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.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

To record the perfect album. That is my dearest wish.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

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