Counting Quote by Victor Francis Hess

I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of…

— Jeff Mangum

I know how important '36 Chambers' is, and it inspired me to record 'Lifted.'

— CL

I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and…

— Beck

I've got about three or four rooms of records, and two rooms of instruments.

— Madlib

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

— Virginia Woolf

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

— Michael Snow

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

— Quincy Jones

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

That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax,…

— Ry Cooder

The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.

— Kevin Parker

I am sorry, but recording an album is just hard work; tedious, repetitive, and not very fun at all. Mixing is a bit better,…

— Varg Vikernes