"There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs."
- @devhynes
"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with"
- Bruce Springsteen
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“I’m making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.”
- @Timbaland
"Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within."
- @Pharrell
Name a piece of gear you can’t live without…
Studio by @SuperStarO 🔥
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“I’ve always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans… I’m a surround-sound type of guy.”
- @Timbaland
Much love to the bedroom producers
@finneas home setup:
Apple Logic Pro X, Universal Audio Apollo 8 interface, AKAI MPK mini + a pair of Yamaha HS5 nearfields with an H8S subwoofer
"I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop."
- @Pharrell
“Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I’m a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.”
— Nile Rodgers
“I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.”
— Phil Spector
“I started coming to the studio with less worked-out pieces, and eventually with nothing at all. I would just start working with that thing, “the studio,” as the instrument.”
— @brianeno
“My responsibility is to the artist first. There’s something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.”
— Nile Rodgers
“I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and…they created their whole own world of music.”
— @rickrubin
“Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.”
— Nile Rodgers