What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
Walter Becker
Related I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w... JON ANDERSON Self acceptance gives you a solid foundation upon which to build yourself into who you want to becom... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fre... BIG BOI The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it... JOSHUA BELL The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want ... JOHN KRASINSKI You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is ... ROY YAMAGUCHI As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are al... AKON If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of diff... MICHAEL P. ANDERSON A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on st... ANGUS YOUNG BBC TV gets hold of an idea and beats it to death until we're all heartily sick of it. They buy ... TERRY WOGAN If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound m... TIESTO That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through... MUDDY WATERS When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something. ZEDD I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even... TOM CRUISE The trouble with people these days is that they want to reach the promised land without going throug... VIKRANT PARSAI It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every... JAMES BLAKE I cover most of the sound that we use on records with what I have. And people tell us that we still ... CHRISTINE MCVIE People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you withou... R. KELLY Beau, what is it you want?" "A porch," he says softly. He says it like it's my name, and right ... EMILY HENRY You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using ... DAVID LEE ROTH The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot o... SYLVESTER STALLONE You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like... DAMON WAYANS, JR. Often, some people dress something up to make it sound scientific, use scientific words, call themse... ELISE ANDREW To build something takes a long time.... with thought of the foundation, how it affects others, hist... PHIL MITCHELL Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to pe... CHARLIE PIERCE I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas... KEITH JARRETT It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into some... BRIAN TEE Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree ... ARTIE LANGE It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don'... R. L. STINE I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a ... BRIAN WILSON If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sou... STEPHEN SONDHEIM People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent... BONNIE MCKEE What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any m... CHESTY PULLER Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a char... MANOJ BHARGAVA Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. 'Get out' and 'I never want to se... JOHN WAYNE I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open t... LEO KOTTKE You want to hear the violin burp. The violin can even sound like a monster. Isn't that cool? MARK WOOD All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after some... SHANNON L. ALDER With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what deat... JOAN RIVERS You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only... GARY HAMEL No matter what you say, it sounds like sour grapes - and I don't want it to sound like that - but it... LUTE OLSON Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. ... ISAAC HAYES Everybody going to the Concourse expects to see some table with an ulterior motive with kids that wa... CHARLES PILMAN When you get people like that, they mean business. You don't want to mess with them. CHARLIE BROWN It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes ... BRIAN SETZER There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL If people are seriously depressed, suicide can come up. People may say the whole world would be bett... SHERRY NELSON One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to w... DAMON KNIGHT Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it sho... JAMES SUROWIECKI Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If i... BARRY ZITO After a while, you want to sell a lot of records, win awards and touch as many people as you can, bu... ANTHONY HAMILTON That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I c... JENNY LEWIS I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up e... SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as... V. E. SCHWAB What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can�... PATRICK NESS It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of. BRYAN FERRY You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don&... DONALD DRIVER You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting with... CHRIS MARTIN Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk... ISAAC ASIMOV Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like comin... LINWOOD BARCLAY What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of ... VINCE GILL Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player ... BRIAN ENO I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it soun... AN NA You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without f... JAMES ALTUCHER See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that y... NED VIZZINI The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they ma... DEAN WAREHAM With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out ... JOHN CUSACK I see kids and pets as similars. With both of them, you give without expecting something monetary in... JOE GREEN Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you ... TOMMY CALDWELL People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by withou... JACK O'BRIEN The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting t... CARLOS SANTANA I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through gr... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something tha... NATE BERKUS If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite. LIZ FRIEDMAN We're all weirdos, and people want to work so hard to fit into society, but it's like, no ma... KEKE PALMER Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's ... CHRISTOPHER YOUNG Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you ... ANNE DUDLEY You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. Th... DAN HAWKINS This is what taxpayers want... a project like this that is fiscally sound. ADRIAN GARCIA I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what ... B.O.B What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that... PETER CAREY I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without th... DR. DRE I hate the new word processors that want to tell you, as you're typing, that you made a mistake.... ELLEN ULLMAN The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're reall... DOMHNALL GLEESON It seems like when you want someone they dont want you. When someone wants you, you don't want them.... OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. ... LOU ADLER You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talkin... DANA BRUNETTI Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ISAAC ASIMOV There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, ... TARAN KILLAM The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo... WILLIAM WYLER There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a soun... YOLANDA ADAMS Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get ... DIANA GALBADON When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smel... L'WREN SCOTT If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference ... GEORGE LUCAS I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be... LARA STONE The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the ene... STEVEN MOFFAT
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BILL BECKER She really gave up a year of her life. BILL BECKER It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to... DAN BECKER We have a long way to go in our fundraising to meet the needs of people from Katrina, let alone what... JOE BECKER There are amazing challenges and obstacles. JOE BECKER The scope of this is just so huge. If you took New Orleans out of the equation, Mississippi and Alab... JOE BECKER Hurricane Katrina is wreaking havoc for southeast Florida and the Gulf coast states. The Red Cross w... JOE BECKER They said they thought he might be a burglary suspect. JOE BECKER People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves ERNEST BECKER Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There see... ERNEST BECKER Something's fishy when the Bush administration delays a report showing no improvement in fuel econom... 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