I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you…

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

— Andrew Bird

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

— Renee Fleming

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy…

— Katherine Jenkins

Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it.

— Mac Miller

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more…

— Taylor Dayne

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to…

— Ben Gibbard

That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.

— Joel Plaskett

Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

— Iris Dement

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get…

— Jeff Tweedy

I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's…

— Wale

I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you.…

— Robert Palmer

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.

— Jeff Tweedy

Making a record's a real fight for me. I'm constantly fighting with this thing inside of me that says I should be sitting in…

— Jason Pierce

There's a tendency for young musicians - I certainly was guilty of this - of wanting to know what they sound like, before making…

— Jack Conte

It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the…

— Maria Callas