Hard Quote by Erin McKeown

When you're in the studio, you have to get the bare-bones, crystallized version of the song you've written. That's the blueprint for everything else.…

— John Popper

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the…

— Will Oldham

I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm…

— Tom Scholz

I can do anything onstage. Here's the misconception: You could record an album called 'The Best of Styx.' And all you would have to…

— Dennis DeYoung

Well, I've been on stage my whole life. Also, when you're doing music videos, a lot of people don't understand. They think you just…

— Glenn Danzig

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my…

— John McLaughlin

There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the studio and…

— Dr. Dre

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

When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in…

— Planningtorock

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If…

— Tom Petty

On stage, we get instant reactions from the public but they can't gauge whether we have modified some beats to suit the audience or…

— KK

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis…

— G-Eazy