Jon Landau Quotes

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made, I was inspired in particular by how the Beatles were innovating when they were making those records late in their career while using the studio in a maximal way.

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.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

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.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

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.

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.

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

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

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.

What Beats brings to Apple are guys with very rare skills. People like this aren't born every day. They're very rare. They really get music deeply.

Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

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

I chose producing because I didn't know how to play any instruments.

Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

My first love is making records, and whatever's necessary in order for me to achieve that, I'll learn how to do it.

We grew up understanding how the analog sound is a driving force for music.