Amy Grant Quotes

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.

Now I'm at a point where I decided I'm going to be in the studio for a while, at least until I finish this record I'm working on now. I should have two, three, four of the sessions that I had that were similar to the sessions for Peace Trail before I have a complete record.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

There's a rumour that we actually make all our albums in the last six months before they're released and the rest of it is procrastination.

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

Making records is hard work.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.