Changed Quote by Stephen Malkmus

The real producers back in the day didn't sit there and play every single instrument. They made sure the record had the best performance…

— Kenny Beats

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.

— Alice Cooper

We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect.

— Craig Zadan

Everything has changed since I started recording in 1972. But the very things that have opened this industry, like the digital platforms to reach…

— Jeffrey Osborne

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

— Ray Davies

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

— Aurora Aksnes

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

— David Guetta

Technology was changing just as we were getting started. You had these records by people like David Bowie and Talking Heads and Brian Eno…

— Curt Smith

Recording in the studio is always a paring-down for us.

— John Popper

We honestly felt a bit more at home in the TV studio than we did in the recording studio.

— Declan Donnelly

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually…

— Noel Redding

The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.

— John Prine