Steve Winwood Quotes

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

My first album was completed in three months.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

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

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.

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

Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.'

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

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

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

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

Making records should be fun.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.