David Sanborn Quotes

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

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.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

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

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

I record everything myself, I engineer everything myself.

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the studio. I will spend my entire advance just getting it done, which is probably stupid, but I don't have extravagant taste. I mean, I paid for it, so there you go. Why not? The recording process is also very fun.

I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I'm very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album.

I've never had anybody produce my records. I've always produced my own records. I've worked with a guy for a while who was an engineer who helped me produce records, but I've always made my own records. I'm a control fanatic. I've got to control everything.