#recordings

I like to stay home and listen to recordings. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#i #like #listen #recordings #stay

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#benefit #came #end #even #father

But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#back #chalk #cheese #compare #did

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#appears #because #been #complicated #figure

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#believe #better #could #dishonest #enough

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#anniversary #any #boxed #called #dust

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. ↗

— Connie Francis

#english #grandmother #hired #hours #i

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. ↗

— Norah Jones

#demos #done #get #gigs #i

Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#back #change #come #decided #experiment

This is... an attempt to find some of the important fault lines in the narrative of "recorded history"--the points where people with access to the technology decided that *this* was how recordings should sound, and *this* is what it means to make a record. Ultimately, this is the story of what it means to make a recording of music--a *representation* of music--and declare it to be music itself. ↗

— Greg Milner

#preservation #recordings #music