Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
Karen Richards: This beats all records for running, standing or jumping gall.
The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.
I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.
I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.
But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.
When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.
Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.
Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. So information has been created and stored in our structure. In the development of one person’s mind from childhood, information is clearly not just...
the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imaginati...
