Paul Gilbert Quotes

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

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

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

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

Making records is hard work.

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

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

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

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.

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.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.