Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

My first album was completed in three months.

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

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.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'.

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 have to make rock records occasionally.

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.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

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

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

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.