Ian MacKaye Quotes

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 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.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

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.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

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

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

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

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

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

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

My favourite thing to do as an artist is record. It's a super therapeutic thing for me. Not to sound corny, but it literally is a stress relief for me.

You should be able to deliver what the artist you're working with wants.

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

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

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

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

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

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.

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.

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 am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.