Johnny Van Zant Quotes

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

When I'm making a record, I'm trying to take people through different moods.

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

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

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.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I like to make great albums.

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

When you are making an album, it is about the purpose - you are creating both a concept and vibe, then you follow through with that.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

I view making records as a journey.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.