Kirstin Maldonado Quotes

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do listen. I have a lot of songs I've wanted to re-record just because of how advanced technology is and the different instrument sounds that I'm more experienced with.

I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.

I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

Having Dierks Bentley on a song is one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to experience. For one, him agreeing to do a song with me but two, getting to share that moment in the studio.

I do more singing than dubbing.

When I was 13 I'd record myself on my karaoke machine and if I didn't like it I'd record it again. I'd do that for hours, making sure each line sounded just right.

For my first album, I thought it was most important for people to hear my voice and to not let it be drowned out by too many lasers and other sounds.

When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it, or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

Producing isn't just making beats on a beat machine. It's bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer, and telling them to all work in the key of C major... You bring these people together and let them all cook.

When I'm recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.

I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.

It's amazing how well real strings blend with metal, like that whole sound.

I just want to get to that point where I'm able to fully create music that's good lyrically and quality-wise as far as the way it's knocking and everything.

I'm not somebody who can tell if the song is good enough to be pushed until I hear what it sounds like after all the bells and whistles are put on it.

For some producers who are technical-minded, making the song sound good is easy, and getting the emotion into the song is harder.