Neil Young Quotes

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

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

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

I just love being in the studio, and that's kind of what I do when I'm not on the road. I'm just in the studio messing with stuff, and I love playing all the instruments.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

Making records is hard work.

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

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

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.