Derek Bailey Quotes

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I spent two years day and night in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.

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.

I love recording music.

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

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

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

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

That's one of the reason T-Bone Burnett calls me... he thinks I'm used to doing what I do in the studio for him.

I love doing instrumental records; I love doing that.

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

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'm always going to do that - record and make music.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

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.

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.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I have been recording for five decades now.