Sound Consistency Quotes

A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don't want it to have that live funky sound so I'll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there's consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life.

Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band for yourself can you maintain the standard of your songs,' and the sound become a foundation. You don't have to feel around for two or three weeks for the sound because the foundation is already built.

Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like Tool no matter what we're trying to do.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

I don't really think there's a genre that we couldn't do, but it wouldn't sound like that genre, if that makes sense. I think we could take any song, but it would sound like us. If you're doing a country song, it could maybe sound a little bit country, but it's going to sound like Pentatonix.

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.