Anthony Fantano Quotes

I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

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

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

My partners are Gourov Dasgupta and Roshan Balu. Together, we're 'Superbia'. I've already signed some film and non-film assignments.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

I can't stand making records.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.

I design music; I don't produce it.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

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

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.