Agnes Obel Quotes

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

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.

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.

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.

I've been making demos at home for many albums now. So over those years, I've learned how to record music, and I love being at home. I excel when I can make things at home.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

My high school was what crafted my interest in recording.

The producer role attracts introverts. Making music on your computer is so appealing to someone who just sits in their room all day.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

We grew up understanding how the analog sound is a driving force for music.

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

Whoever has a next-level ear needs to be an Eardrummer.