Before Quote by Rick Derringer

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other…

— Rick Derringer

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the…

— John Deacon

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

— Matt Skiba

There was a technique to making a musical. It took a long time for the studios to learn it, and it was very complicated.

— Cyd Charisse

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and…

— Thurston Moore

When we first started it was just Russell and myself and a guitar player, Earle Mankey, and unlike virtually any other band in Los…

— Ron Mael

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the…

— Jens Lekman

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers…

— Aoife O'Donovan

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying…

— Martin Gore

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

I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is…

— Ben E. King

My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted…

— Madonna Ciccone