Washed Out Quotes

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.

I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

What really excites me is the production. I get in there and change a lot of stuff.

I want recording to be fun.

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

Recording should be fun.

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

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.

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.

I love the magic of the studio.

I'm a painter in sound.

I love recording music.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

I take sounds and change them into words.

I love being in the studio.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.