Arto Lindsay Quotes

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

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.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

My first album was completed in three months.

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

I have an EP coming soon with Cardo. It's called 'Glizzy Got Wings.' I love his sound, and he loves mine.

I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.

I'd love to sing with so many people, but my biggest dream would be to sing on a record with The National.

If you got a vibe with a producer I think you should go full-fledged instead of being satisfied with two songs.

We were about ready to go out on the road with Maiden, and Kerrang asked us to do an Iron Maiden tribute song. While we were home, we recorded that. And that was it.

I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new artists. I want to do everything from rock, to jazz, to electronic, to noise records and movie sound tracks. Both sampled and original music.

With my second album, eOne Music really wanted me to rock it up a little bit.

I'm very proud of the album I made with Adrenaline Mob, and I think that there was really a great chemistry there; it was a great band.

Now that I have better producer chops, a country album is something I want to do one day. I don't know who's going to put it out. But when I do, I don't think people will call it 'country music.' They'll probably call it 'neo-soul.'

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

I worked with Chris Squire on a Greg Lake record in the early '80s, worked with Alan White.

In the mid-1970s, I even decided to make my own country album. I put the idea to my record company, thinking we'd just go into the studio in the U.K. and make a novelty album. But instead, they suggested I go to Nashville. I was flabbergasted. I hadn't expected that at all.