Chris Young Quotes

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

I tend to have a lot of songs ready for each record I do anyway. I always have. I was thinking, the more you write, the better chance you're going to come up with a collection of stuff that is going to work together.

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

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as we can to a record with the money and time we have.

A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.