Ridley Scott Quotes

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

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

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

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

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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.

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

For me, music comes naturally. I always just get in the studio and I feel like, wow, this is my heaven.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

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

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

Making records should be fun.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

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.

There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

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.