Dusty Hill Quotes

We record a lot of our shows, we record our soundchecks.

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

I never really work on just one CD - I'm recording, recording.

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.

When you're playing in front of people, everything is external. It's all going from you out to an audience. When you're in a studio, it's very internalised, it's going from the air through you into this meticulously crafted, layered piece of work.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

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.

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.