Gary Cherone Quotes

I made my entire first tape using Beats headphones - the studio headphones and halfway through the second one, because I finally started making a home studio. But I record and make all my beats with the Beats headphones.

I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.

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.

If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.

I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

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.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

I've been making demos at home for many albums now. So over those years, I've learned how to record music, and I love being at home. I excel when I can make things at home.

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

All I know is record, record, record, record.

Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.

It doesn't matter if you record with a microphone on a laptop or at a friend's house. Now it's more of a danger of things sounding too high-fi than sounding too low-fi.

When you make timeless music - and I like to think that's what I'm doing - the fun part is picking the songs. You can clip and flop and mix and match, and when the record is timeless and it feels good, you know it's going to have the same appeal whether you put it out now or 10 years from now. That's what I'm about.

If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.