Benny Green Quotes

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.

I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that's fun, it doesn't have the same impact as getting some great players together in a great studio with a great engineer and producer, then waiting for the magic.

It's funny, man, sometimes you record something that you plan on re-doing later, but then when you listen back to it, you decide to keep it because you realize that it's gonna be real tough to beat!

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music is to create a unique sound palette or soundscape for all the films I'm working on.

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you're going into the studio five days a week?

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

We've always tried to inspire ourselves, so to speak. In the beginning, that could mean just hearing your own songs played back to you for the very first time.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

You can never really know what a record's going to be.

Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

You're always thinking about making new music.

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.

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.