Placido Domingo Quotes

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.

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.

I'm working on my music - I've taken a little break from it and want to get back into that.

If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.

I waited until the end of the 'Behold Electric Guitar' recording sessions to record 'A Herd of Turtles,' as I knew the unusual arrangement might raise some eyebrows.

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

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

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.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.