Dusty Hill Quotes

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

My first album, I had to write everything. Nobody was going to send me stuff just because I had a little success.

I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.

Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn't have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I'd record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me.

If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.