Lil Durk Quotes

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

I recorded 'Play God' in a shed. I don't know how we got it to sound as good as it did.

In the past, when you were just starting out, you had a day and a half of studio time - maybe two, if your buddy's uncle lets you stay.

Some artists send their verses, and others record in my studio. Depends. I prefer them being there.

Almost everything I've ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.

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

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.

Our recordings, you feel that it's been, not labored, but you feel that it's been constructed in a way where sometimes it's hard for us to create the feeling that this was done in a room.

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

When I record in a studio. I know that on Tuesday at 3 o'clock I've got to go be creative.

I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

Recording at Compass Point was really fantastic. When you're in the studio, you could be anywhere: It could be snowing outside or whatever. But it's great fun when you come out of the studio and are greeted by nice weather and good bars.

I have my own studio that I sing in.

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

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

The first record we made, we recorded and mixed in a day. The second record was recorded and mixed in a week. The third was recorded and mixed in a month, and 'New Wave' was mixed and recorded in six months. It was an epic project.