Khalid Quotes

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.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

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

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

I design music; I don't produce it.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

We grew up understanding how the analog sound is a driving force for music.

This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.

Whoever has a next-level ear needs to be an Eardrummer.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

I love the magic of the studio.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

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