Around Quote by John Grant

I still use a lot of cut-ups, I physically cut-up pieces of paper and stick them all together on another piece of paper then…

— Thighpaulsandra

I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better…

— Dave Navarro

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

— Huey Lewis

Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out.

— Timothy B. Schmit

Every time I do a cover, I completely... pick apart - I take apart the entire song and really reconstruct it. I try and…

— Alexa Ray Joel

I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is…

— Perfume Genius

I want to be ripped apart by music...

— Jeff Buckley

I just don't want to cut a tune and come in later on and put things on it.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

— Jens Lekman

I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in people's faces. I want to keep it relaxed.

— Iwan Rheon

I used to cut school sometimes and record songs.

— Bryson Tiller

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

— Chris Carmack