Errors Quote by Levon Helm

I say most of my music is very trial-and-error.

— Julia Holter

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs,…

— M. Ward

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

— Paul Lansky

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

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

— Mark Morris

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

— Rob Sheffield

Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes…

— Albert Murray

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

— Flea

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting…

— Zooey Deschanel

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly…

— Rick Nielsen

My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.

— Adrian Younge

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've…

— Edie Brickell