Facts Quote by David Bowie

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about…

— David Bowie

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

— Paul Lansky

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

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

— Mark Morris

I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which…

— Jonathan Nolan

I view music mostly as communication, so when I record, I'm communicating to the listener in the future.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and…

— Adrianne Lenker

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

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this…

— Bruce Springsteen

Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded, I wouldn't…

— Beth Hart

I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in my head…

— Melanie Martinez

I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas. Whoever chooses to latch…

— M. Ward