I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone. Beck More Quotes by Beck More Quotes From Beck I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional. Beck ends littles thinking Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows. Beck shadow girl light I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years. Beck always-working records years There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be. Beck track different people There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing. Beck helping-others use people There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording. Beck detours emotion song I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music. Beck believe people years I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself. Beck nice helping-others people I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live. Beck band trying years There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. Beck perception artist opposites Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare. Beck records different light I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era. Beck eras grew grew-up I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment. Beck cartoon song giving [Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music. Beck attitude Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it. Beck curiosity taste culture Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary. Beck vocabulary sound doe I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002. Beck computer typewriters years It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard. Beck party stupid song I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win. Beck winning song thinking I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music. I wonder if it's going to go back to that. Sometimes I think it has to. As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact. Beck emotional believe thinking
![[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music. by Beck](https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-medium-quote-cb5b956955a0f3aa30852994343a2f36.jpg)
