Built Quote by Aaron Copland

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my…

— Dan Deacon

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate…

— Moby

Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's…

— Charlie Parker

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

— Isaac Hanson

Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.

— Joe Budden

A big marker in my life was realizing you could record sound: I liked to make little recordings and then go back and listen…

— Josh Garrels

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my…

— John McLaughlin

Sometimes people just see the overall success and it overshadows our true love for music and how much we love to record. I love…

— Lloyd Banks

It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people connect with…

— Steve Grand

As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

— Ben Howard

The human element of making music is what's most important.

— Dave Grohl