Christopher Cross Quotes

A vocal producer is very important, and it's a very important component of an overall successful and good-sounding record.

There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

I still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible.

It's always been difficult to make a good record.

It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

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.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Making records should be fun.

I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.

Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.

I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to hear it. You sit in the studio all this time and make the music, tweak it, try to get it perfect. They should be able to hear it that way.

GusGus records are flawless.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.

People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.

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

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

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.

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 write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.