Recordings Quotes

Nimbus is doing a great service with these excellently produced transformations of piano roll recordings.

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.