Amount Quote by Ryan Adams

Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did,…

— Rick Wright

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music,…

— Edie Brickell

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what…

— Tommy Bolin

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what…

— Chad Smith

When I'm making music, like my album 'Pivot & Scrape,' I go into this daze-like state where I don't always know what I'm channeling.…

— Sophie Thatcher

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this…

— Bruce Springsteen

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making…

— Washed Out

When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while,…

— Washed Out

During the course of the day, I write things down, things I don't do anything with. Then, when I get ready to start recording,…

— Bootsy Collins

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it…

— John Abercrombie

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at…

— Charlie Kaufman

There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I didn't notice…

— Vijay Iyer