Recording Time Quotes

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.

I dubbed for the first time in 'Ko Ko' and I found it good as I finished it in three days.

Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.

I like digital because you can shoot for longer.

The first record we made, we recorded and mixed in a day. The second record was recorded and mixed in a week. The third was recorded and mixed in a month, and 'New Wave' was mixed and recorded in six months. It was an epic project.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a problem, since the notes used are universal. The language is the problem. I try my best to get it right, as I'm sensitive about respecting every language, since all of them are sacred in my heart.

TV show's really quick. You're in, you're out. A film usually takes a lot longer. However, a voiceover is very much like TV in the sense that it's really quick. For example, I did the movie Planes in one day.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

Voice work is usually not that big of a time commitment. You can go in for a couple of days or a couple of months, here and there, and just go in and play. I like being able to do that. You don't have that luxury on film sets or television sets.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

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

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

It depends on the arrangement. It could take 3 hours, it could take 3 days, it could take a week. 'Thrift Shop' took one arrangement session. We did it all in a circle that day. 'Evolution of Music' and 'Evolution of Beyonce' took a bunch of different sessions.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Recording is just a lengthy process, so to have to record before every professional video, that's where a real time drain comes in.

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.