Tyler Joseph Quotes

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

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

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

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

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.

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

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

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.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

Once a song is done, for me, personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mixdown.

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

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music.