Blow Quote by Elvis Costello

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for…

— Jeffrey Deitch

When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what…

— Kurt Vile

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 lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

— Moby

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

Sound comes out of a life experience.

— Bill Laswell

The sound changes from day to day, and even from moment to moment. Do not underestimate the power of music.

— McChristian Pascual Virgilio

Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned.

— Julian Treasure

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

— Yoko Ono

The days that you record by yourself, you feel like a crazy person because you're saying the same line, 10 different ways, or they…

— Zach Woods

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

— Gordon Raphael

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it…

— John Abercrombie