Matisyahu Quotes

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

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.

Singing and playing live can be difficult. Like, in the studio, I would record either the music track first or the vocal first. I don't necessarily do them together.

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

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

My first CD started as a studio project and I record everything with one other guy, so I didn't have a band. That's kind of how I like to do it, though. I like to create it with one other person, this guy, Tommy English, who produces everything. And then I go out on the road with a band who interprets it live.

When I made 'Feed tha Streets,' those were the only 17 songs I had made, period. There was no cutting songs out or adding other songs in.

What I noticed, in the short time I've been in Chickenfoot, we wound up doing a tour and a live DVD with basically that scoop sound. I was using OD2 for that entire tour. When we went out on this new tour and made the new record, I used the amp in an entirely different way. It was already modified.

I quietly work with my computer on the tour bus, and then I wait to make my more natural rhythms when I get home.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].