Artist Quote by M. Ward

I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, like 'Winter in America'…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can…

— Will Oldham

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener…

— Leo Ornstein

Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms…

— Stevie Jackson

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks.…

— Stanley Clarke

I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.

— Mick Barr

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great…

— Jim Sturgess

So the recordings were these immersive landscapes, and yet, unlike the performances that almost no one would see, I had a sense that these…

— Miranda July

Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made, I was…

— Lee Ranaldo

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

— Stephen Sondheim

“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even…

— Geoffrey O'Brien

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when…

— Steven Price