Ludwig Goransson Quotes

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

Make your own music. It can be done.

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

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.

What really excites me is the production. I get in there and change a lot of stuff.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.

Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.

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

I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.

I feel like, a lot of times, when you have a specific sound that you want and are searching for, you want the right group to help you put the kind of music out that you want.

I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music is to create a unique sound palette or soundscape for all the films I'm working on.

I like producing myself, I like other people producing, I just like it all.

I want recording to be fun.

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.

It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

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.

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

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.