Best way Quote by Levon Helm

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

My philosophy for producing a record is for everyone involved, including myself, to get out of the way of the song, and at the…

— M. Ward

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on…

— Jon Pardi

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have…

— Brian Setzer

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives…

— Smokey Robinson

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

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone…

— Barry Gibb

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 record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote…

— Johnny Cash

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see…

— Serj Tankian

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

— DMX

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

— Conor Oberst