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> [Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/music-gets-recorded-usually-in-one-format-and-when-you-have-to-take/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/todd-rundgren-3427_application_music-gets-recorded-usually-in-one-forma_189366.jpg)

> [I've been essentially not only deconstructing and reconstructing the material to make it suitable for the performance, but I've gone back and found some older material that's appropriate for the show and I've re-recorded that as well in kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/i-ve-been-essentially-not-only-deconstructing-and-reconstructing-the/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f19/todd-rundgren-3427_appropriate_i-ve-been-essentially-not-only-deconstru_2310619.jpg)

## More by Todd Rundgren

> [I suppose people also have to be a little more careful or circumspect if they're going to leverage their celebrity to promote their political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/i-suppose-people-also-have-to-be-a-little-more-careful-or-circumspect/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/it-s-the-only-way-that-your-life-is-gonna-have-any-value-to-you-if/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/once-i-go-on-stage-the-atmosphere-is-totally-theatrical-the-greater/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/i-know-that-i-could-make-this-world-peaceful-and-calm-if-i-only-could/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/the-toddstock-thing-is-the-closest-thing-i-have-to-say-a-grateful/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/by-the-time-my-first-solo-record-came-out-i-was-making-a-handsome/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/music-gets-recorded-usually-in-one-format-and-when-you-have-to-take/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/singles-needed-to-come-back-and-what-i-tried-to-do-in-my-online/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/as-much-as-i-d-like-to-be-listening-to-other-things-i-can-t-do-that/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/it-may-not-necessarily-reflect-my-current-frame-of-mind-sometimes-i/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [When the Beatles first came out, you had to go to a certain amount of trouble to have long hair. You just couldn't have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/when-the-beatles-first-came-out-you-had-to-go-to-a-certain-amount-of/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/people-have-always-said-that-i-could-have-been-a-highly-successful/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/when-i-got-out-of-high-school-i-joined-a-local-blues-band-in/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/i-m-a-guitar-player-really-i-mean-first-and-foremost-i-grew-up-with/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

> [The ultimate crime is not to care.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-rundgren/the-ultimate-crime-is-not-to-care/)

[Todd Rundgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-rundgren/)

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