Keren Ann Quotes

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

I think the recording industry is founded on that principle: to approximate the live experience, to approximate that thing that evaporates as it's happening, disappears as it's happening.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

I'd rather make music than tour.

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.

Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.

Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

When you do an album, you don't get to test an album live.

We all record together. We do it live; then, after that, we do overdubs, if we need to, to repair stuff. Usually when we do stuff, we have to make sure we get the bass and drums down, and by doing it live, you're actually playing the song. You're not piecing together a song.

When I go back to seek inspiration - whether it be from Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, the Beatles, Hank Williams, Ray Charles or Bob Dylan - it's from the performance. Those artists are in the studio playing their instrument and singing. There's no going back and redoing the vocals.

For 'Rock On,' we not only acted as rock musicians; we also went into the studio to record songs and jammed live to get the concert feel right.

I was never growing up saying, 'Dude, I want to sing in a band.'

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

I love making records. That's my favorite part of the whole process. And I love playing live, but certainly getting the music on a disc that's going to live forever and be there forever, just every little detail drives me crazy.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.