Danny Carey Quotes

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

I do as much as I can. I even drive through the chase scenes several times to make sure the details are right.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that.

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

I'm a perfectionist, and I'm not going to let the world hear a record until it's ready.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects.

I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

I have an obsession for quality.

I don't take any project lightly. Every project is important for me. In fact, every scene in every film is important.

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.

I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.

Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.

I always prioritize quality over quantity of work.

If I don't understand something properly, every single component, it really bugs me.

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.