Audience Quote by Charlie Benante

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

— Leon Russell

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

— Alexis Taylor

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their…

— Scott Weiland

You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist…

— T.I

It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up…

— Stephen Malkmus

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I…

— Kathleen Edwards

It's fun to make records that you want to sit back and listen to yourself.

— Uncle Kracker

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

— Richard Thompson

When you're producing your own record, you do your best to be objective and take a step back from it from time to time.

— Derek Trucks

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted…

— Sondre Lerche

The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right, you're exposing…

— Scott Borchetta

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and…

— Dr. Dre