CL Quotes

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.

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

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of passion and a lot of attention to detail, right?

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

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

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

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.

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

Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.