Hank Williams III Quotes

I have my own studio that I sing in.

I don't really look at dubbing from a singer's shoes.

I do more singing than dubbing.

I think that I've gotten a lot more relaxed, and I know how to go about getting a sound now. I know what to do to get the vibe right. As an example, when I'm doing vocals, I don't have six guys sitting out there in the control room, messing around, making faces.

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

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

It's no longer necessary to slave over the vocals. I don't sing the lyrics until I write them, and singing is the very last thing I do. I record the entire track, and then I worry about lyrics and vocals. The music will suggest where the words are going to a certain extent.

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

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

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

We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

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

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.

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

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 first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

Since his childhood, Bappa has observed me singing and practicing and is well aware of all sorts of recording and singing arrangements. I have a studio at my home, so whenever he needs my help I make sure I stand by him. I often sing for the tunes that he composes.

It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.

A lot of my vocals were the first time I ever sang the song.