Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.
I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.
We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are.
Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.
I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.
I was like a wonder kid at Uptown. The first record I produced sold two million copies - and I'd only produced it because the producer didn't show up.
The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.
I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.
I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.
I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.
I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people
I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.
