Danny Carey Quotes

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

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

There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

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

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

It's always been difficult to make a good record.

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.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.