Joe Bonamassa Quotes

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

I had been using a 4-track and a digital 8-track in the '90s, and it was this huge complicated thing. But GarageBand is right there.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

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

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

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

I like to make great albums.

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

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of passion and a lot of attention to detail, right?

I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.

I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.

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

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

In my solo work on my own albums, I have used voice synthesizers and vocoders quite a lot in connection with orchestral instruments.

What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac.