Guitar Quote by Marnie Stern

I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write;…

— Hamilton Leithauser

If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't…

— Zaytoven

It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat…

— Eminem

It's easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.

— Kaytranada

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying…

— Jay Reatard

The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?

— Flume

Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's…

— Washed Out

I've always been fascinated by the idea of creating music using only vocals.

— Mitch Grassi

In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate…

— Taylor Hawkins

If I improvise vocals at an early stage of the song, I just kind of listen to the roll, and then I kind of…

— Adam Granduciel

People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines…

— Isaac Hecker

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

— Mike Gordon