Robert Glasper Quotes

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

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

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

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

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

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

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.'

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

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

I just want to be in the studio 24/7. Even if I'm not working on a song right then, just sit in the studio. That's what I love.

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

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

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.