Roland Orzabal Quotes

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

I just want to say, creating music with Childish Gambino has been one of the greatest joys of my life.

I think that when I am making music, if I can be really happy with it and get my message across, then that is the most important thing.

I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.

I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I'm very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album.

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be.

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].

You don't get bored making an album.

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

When I'm making a record, I'm trying to take people through different moods.

A lot of people get a high from being onstage. I found ways to enjoy it. But I get it from being in the studio.

The music comes first. Final lyrics are usually written very close to recording the vocals.

There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'

Making records is hard work.

When I made 'Feed tha Streets,' those were the only 17 songs I had made, period. There was no cutting songs out or adding other songs in.

Almost everything I've ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

I try to record music that people can relate to.

The only thing that's changed for me is that I've figured out a new way to do this; when I go to record, I like to do the drums last, if that makes any sense to you.

I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

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