Feelings Quote by Guy Berryman

If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become acutely self-conscious…

— Richard Thompson

Even when I was calling myself the Microphones I only really ever played new songs... because I feel, like, a pretty strong connection to…

— Phil Elverum

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

— Aurora Aksnes

Making music is mostly spontaneously following sounds you find compelling that you chase and see where they're leading you.

— Sam Roberts

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

— Andrew Bird

After I sing a song, I keep a track of it just for a short time. Just the first few reactions. After that, I…

— KK

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

— Hoodie Allen

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks…

— R. Kelly

I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.

— Sam Hunt

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited…

— Adam Granduciel

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away…

— Taylor Momsen

Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on…

— Brooke Valentine