Ghostface Killah Quotes

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

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

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

The first project, I made 16 songs and put 12 of them on the mixtape.

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

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

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

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

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.

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

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

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.

My best capacity is to edit. If anything, I am a specialist at editing: my usual approach is to record a song very long. In the beginning just jam, jam on and on. Then break the song and play with it.

I'd write songs like 'One Big Holiday,' and we'd play it and say, 'It's too heavy for 'At Dawn.' Let's save it for the next one.' We had more time for that, but when you mix a song, the general rule of thumb for us is a song a day or usually a day and a half.

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that's their album. I can't relate, because I've never made music in that way. I come from a culture of editing and remixing.

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.