Tig Notaro Quotes

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.

With my own music, I'm much more reluctant to say, you know, 'This record slaps!'

I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George, do you want me to play the same thing or 160 different things?' It drove me crazy because, in general, I'm ready to play my part.

I feel like 'Pitchfork' has a style, and you always know what they're gonna say and what they're gonna pick apart.

I treat recorded tapes the way a film director treats his rushes.

I would give anything if it went back to analog age. I mean, music was so real, and you had to sing everything on a record; you had to play everything on a record. There was no cut-and-paste - you couldn't get the chorus right one time and then paste it every other time; you really had to be good at what you did.

There are a lot of great albums that take a year to connect.

There's definitely a couple of people I'll play stuff to when it's nearly finished just to see what they think; Mark, our producer, his wife is Australian and just listens to the radio - she's awesome - and, I guess, is quite a casual music listener.

I can be very stoic looking, that's just my facial expression. I don't smile a lot.

I love Frank Ocean. For me, 'Channel Orange' is the best LP ever. I love his voice, the songwriting, everything.

I am very conscious of first sampling the music and then getting it out for fans.

It has happened a few times that I've found myself in a surprise mid-tour recording session.

I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.

If somebody has no sense of humor, I think that's a great place to start for British comedy in terms of your character.

Producing just one video is a long process. First, you decide your song, then you have to figure out the arrangement of the song; will you play it on the guitar? Will you make it a music video? Once you figure that out, you record it and then edit it, which can take two to five days to finish.

I started going on YouTube and studying everybody who was super popular, from Taylor Swift to Beyonce to Michael Jackson to Chris Brown, just everybody... That's what helped me find my voice and helped me find how I write songs, just doing covers.

I don't much listen to music as I study it: who's doing what, who wrote it.

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.

I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.