Hey Quote by Daniel Lopatin

Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.

— Ty Segall

When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while,…

— Washed Out

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and…

— Christian Marclay

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is…

— David Ogden Stiers

Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it.

— Jon Hopkins

I tend to get sounds that sound a little bit wrecked.

— Gordon Raphael

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

— Sturgill Simpson

On first listen, it's nice to just soak up the sound without thinking about what it means. It's like a relationship. Records I've had…

— Sharon Van Etten

I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

— A.C. Newman

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.

— Trent Reznor

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to…

— T Bone Burnett

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

— Trent Reznor