Iris Dement Quotes

Making records should be fun.

I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun.

I definitely use "smiling while rapping" as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. At times it can get tedious and stressful when it's not sounding the way you heard it in your head, but you've got to remember to just smile and appreciate the fact that you're even in the booth and there are people who want to hear your art.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

The whole experience of working on this movie was so fun, and I had more fun working on that than I've had on anything else. I had more fun working than on my days off.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.

With Racer X, whenever we have time, we try to put a record together. And that's always fun because the guys in the band are great friends and I don't think I ever laugh as hard as I do when I'm with the Racer X guys.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

If you are having fun on screen, it shows.

I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

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.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

I love recording music.

For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.