Song Recording Quotes

It's good when someone says, "Would you write a song for this purpose," or "would you record a song for this purpose," or "would you help me realize this song," again, for this purpose.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

As for song recordings - well, that's something that just happens. I've been working with music directors like Harris Jeyaraj sir, A. R. Rahman sir, and the experience is great.

I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

It was fun trying to use a few different voices for the vocal track on 'Country Heroes.'

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.

When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

'Been That Way' is a song that Timbaland gave me. Actually, the beat is. And then he called me to come out there to Miami. I went out there to work with him, and he gave me two beats for my project. One was 'Sorry Not Sorry,' and the other one was 'Been That Way,' and I recorded both of them in my hotel.

You're not going to hit it every single time, and that's why, when I record an album, I do probably close to 50 songs. Each song I record has to get better. If it's not better than the last song that I made, it'll usually linger for a couple of months, and then it'll be put on the backburner, and then there'll be another song that I do, and then it often doesn't make it on the album.

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.

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

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

Back when I was growing up, if I loved a song, I would record it off of the radio so I could hear them as many times as I wanted.

I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats.