John Abercrombie Quotes

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

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

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

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

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

I like to make great albums.

I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

I feel like, a lot of times, when you have a specific sound that you want and are searching for, you want the right group to help you put the kind of music out that you want.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

It's always been difficult to make a good record.

You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

Making records is hard work.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

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.

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

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

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