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"There isn't any formula - as soon as we have a formula,
we lose the flexibility to respond to the moment."
- George Massenburg

"Musicians are the most important asset to my success."
- Bob Thiele

"EQ is phase is time is money."
- Ike Zimbel

"[I]n the [traditional] recording studio, there were always many people working together at the same time: musicians, recording engineer, producer, arranger... There was lots of talking, a direct contact between human beings, negotiations and compromises had to be made, and in the end, all this was beneficial to the music. All these relationships disappear when you're [alone at home] in front of the screen of your computer."
- Manu Katche
"I used to think that tension didn't have much to do with good music -- that music was about good vibes and relaxation. Those are good ingredients to have, but tension is part of the recording process, as are differences of opinion. If you have a high regard for someone you're working with, and they have a different opinion than yours, then it's a difference you also have to respect."
- Daniel Lanois
"There are no rules, although when I asked Daniel Lanois for advice on how to get a good acoustic guitar sound, his answer was, 'First get a good-sounding acoustic guitar.' I suppose that's a rule that goes for almost everything you record."
-Pierre Marchand
"[Rock] requires an aesthetic of fully integrated completion whereby the musicians are listening to each other play and "talking" to each other via slight but constant adjustments and inflections which move the tune in new directions. Only a band's soundman ever gets to appreciate this level of bandplay."
-Joe Carducci, Rock And The Pop Narcotic
"If you don't do it, you don't have it."
- Jay Leno

"If you aren't being criticized, you aren't doing your job."
- Donald Rumsfeld

"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
- Confucius

"Beauty in music is too often confused with something
that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair."
- Charles Ives

"There are two universes in music...greatness and perfection. Sometimes the universes touch: you can have greatness and perfection at the same time...if they don't just take greatness and forget perfection."
- Jimmy Miller (via C.N. Fletcher)

"People are busy working and making a living. They can't spend their whole day trying to figure out about music. It's a full time job. It takes a lot of commitment and integrity to live like that. You do that 24-7 and you'll get it. But you can't just step in occasionally and think you have a point of view. It doesn't work."
- Bill Laswell

"True musicians don't have to go to heaven, they are already there!"
- the sage Yajnavalka

"I think people who can live their life in music are telling the world: 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best,' and it's the part I give most willingly."
- George Harrison