Richard LaGravenese Quotes

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

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

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

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.

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.

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

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 scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

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 try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

I want recording to be fun.

I've always been in love with film and music.

There's a lot of electronic surround-sound music, and I've done a lot of work where I write music for other people to move around a space.

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

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

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.

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.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.