Billy Sherwood Quotes

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

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

To me, making records isn't work.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

I feel like Turbo helped me grow. It's the way we just lock in. His mind is set to where he'll start making beats to my flow and my sound. He's not an engineer, but he knows how to record.

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

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

I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.

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 love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

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.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

Making records should be fun.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'

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.