Phil Elverum Quotes

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

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.

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

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

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 started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

Making records should be fun.

I love recording music.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'

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