Because Quote by Joanna Newsom

There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed in my…

— Sarah Blasko

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

— Colin Meloy

The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

— Bonobo

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to…

— Branford Marsalis

I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to…

— Dom Kennedy

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

— Ryan Cabrera

I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a positive way…

— Kenny Chesney

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and…

— Thurston Moore

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording and when…

— Vashti Bunyan

I didn't want to put out 'The Unseen' because I thought I would be criticized. I thought everyone would think the sped-up vocals were…

— Madlib