"Try to look at the big picture ... we're all in it and you're not!"
-- Industry executive to a stubborn engineer
|
"Could you put that up an octave just a little?"
-- unknown producer |
"I just want the vibe of the strings to be on the tape."
-- unknown producer after telling the engineer to erase the string
tracks he just spent the entire day recording |
"So let's run an instrumental version, and then one without any vocals."
-- Steve Lindsey |
"Bruce just listened to all the songs on the greatest hits LP. He wants
to speed them all up, except for 'Thunder Road', which speeds up all
by itself."
-- Jon Landau |
"Does the noise in my head bother you?"
-- Highly caffeinated engineer up for 36 hours. |
"I've never liked backwards ideas. It always sounds like you've run out
of forwards ideas."
-- Gilson Lavis, former drummer with Squeeze |
"Well, that's the dilemma. It's supposed to be a solo and the backing
vocals aren't very good, so I'd turn up the hand claps and make it a
party sort of vibe."
-- Paul Westerberg in response to Bob's question "Is that a solo?" |
"I make records so I can buy art."
-- Jimmy Iovine to Jim Kerr after hearing lyrics to a new Simple Minds
song. |
Joe Pine (60's talk show host who had a wooden leg) to Frank Zappa "So, with your long hair, I guess that makes you a woman."
Frank Zappa's response -- "So, with your wooden leg, I guess that makes
you a table." |
"That's not a bug, that's a feature."
-- Phil Cork, SSL software engineer
|
"Well, it's not really 'hi-fi,' and not really 'lo-fi.' It's just kinda
'fi.'"
-- Aimee Mann |
"You don't actually have to be able to understand the lyrics, you've
just got to feel like you could if you wanted to"
-- Chuck Plotkin (Producer for Bruce Springsteen) |
"Why the hell would I make up a name like 'Froom'?"
-- Mitchell Froom, upon being asked if 'Froom' was his real name |
"You play it now, I'll skip it for you later."
-- Producer asking for a part from a violinist after the violinist
suggested skipping that section. |
"No brain, no headache."
-- Unknown engineer referring to guitarist who accidentally swallowed
his guitar pick. |
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