Tom Petty Quotes

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

You can call me a beat-maker, but I'm a record producer.

I started making beats in high school.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

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

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

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a remix or an original production. I don't think about it as, 'Well, I have to spend three hours on a remix or I have to do something all original.'

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

I can't stand making records.

My profession is called record production.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

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.