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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

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it…

— Ann Wilson

I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did…

— Beck

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an…

— Graham Parker

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It…

— Brian Eno

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

— Mitch Grassi

When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to…

— Mary Gauthier

I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all…

— Zach Condon

I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.

— Sturgill Simpson

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

— Conor Oberst

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem…

— Tom Waits

It's a particular skill, I think , doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

— Lisa Hannigan