Linda Perry Quotes

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

An album takes a lot of work and energy and dedication to make.

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

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

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

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

Making records is hard work.

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.

In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

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.