Gretchen Parlato Quotes

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

I really love crafting albums and thinking of albums as a whole, not just individual songs or singles or just tracks, but a whole entire album.

I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.

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

When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.

I like to make great albums.

When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

I have an obsession with making an album rather than a collection of tracks. For me it's like making a film - it's the perfect length of time to tell a story.

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or 'I am feeling that' then I write it down and we just continue building the album from there.

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

When you're sitting in the basement trying to get on, you have no choice - you've gotta figure out how to make a song: 'I've gotta bang on these buttons until it sounds good.'

I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I'm comfortable in my computer chair.

Certain key words, like, 'break it down,' 'this is how we do it' - they'll always end up on my tracks.

I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.