Dave Grohl Quotes

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

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

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

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

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

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

I am sorry, but recording an album is just hard work; tedious, repetitive, and not very fun at all. Mixing is a bit better, but still pretty boring.

Making records is hard work.

When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

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 just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

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.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.