I think we’ve got the tracks that everyone wants to sing along to. A lot of people say, ‘God, I’ve forgotten you’ve had so many hits!’
I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That’s one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that’s made me like it less. It feels much more like it’s a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.
So many bands play to tracks – what’s the point in coming to see them live if they’re playing to a CD?
Mile tracks put more emphasis on the driver. On the longer tracks, you can drive flat out all the way around, so it’s more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can’t run flat out. You’re constantly in traffic, there’s more driver involvement.
I was recording dance tracks when the auditions for ‘Popstars: The Rivals’ came along.
I love ‘Spirit Tracks’ – I’m a ‘Zelda’ fan all my life.
I like my stuff ’cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
I’m so happy people have enjoyed listening to my tracks.
I wanted to break into producing, so I would peddle my tracks and beats to labels. I always heard the same thing: They liked the music, but it didn’t fit any of the artists on their roster.
Even in my Hardwell sets I’ve been playing Drake songs and even from the beginning I’ve been in love with his tracks. I love the way he raps and sings.
I’d say the late 70s were probably pretty cool. Obviously the cars weren’t safe and the tracks weren’t safe and all that stuff, but I think back then it was more about the driver.
When I recorded ‘Cooler Than Me’, I had been singing for like, three months at the most. I was just a producer experimenting with my voice on tracks, and now I’m, like, a really good singer in a legit way.
I’m not following anybody’s tracks, I’m making my own baby.
I’ve got my own studio, and I’ve got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I’ve got stuff that’s electronic, orchestral, jazz, I’ve got rock, I’ve got metal, you know, I don’t have polka.
We are all human, and we are all able to listen to music that we cannot understand. I used to listen to English music like Notorious B.I.G., and I didn’t know what he’s talking about in all of his tracks, but I’m a fan. It’s rhythm and a groove that makes me dance, so I’m convinced that my music can work in the U.S.
Silverstone is challenging, but it has a good feel. It’s one of the quickest tracks of the year, with legendary corners like the Magotts, Becketts, Chapel complex.
If you grow up on the good side of the tracks, you’re going to belong to something over there. If you grow up on the bad side of the tracks, you’re going to belong to something over there. It’s not rocket science.
As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like ‘The Godfather’ or ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ or ‘The Graduate.’ You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.
Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.
I’d been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people – my future manager and two publishers – happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it’s all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from ‘Inception,’ I challenge you to tell me which is which.
I was known as an activist, described by CBC’s ‘The Fifth Estate’ as ‘the 23-year-old waitress who stopped the pulp company dead in its tracks.’ Without knowing it was even possible, my activism helped me gain admission to Dalhousie University law school.
Usually when I talk with other drivers, it’s about past races, what they did, tips for different tracks, especially others in the Ford family.
When I am offered a film, I don’t ask whether I will be singing any of the movie’s tracks.
When we’re talking about our title tracks, ‘DNA’ is about the expression of a young, passionate love.
As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads.
Hungary we know it’s a difficult track, it’s one of the most physical tracks.
I love Bob Dylan. ‘Blood on the Tracks’ is one of my top five records.
Allowing casinos to operate without having races could result in the end of dog racing in Florida as we know it. Right now, greyhound racing is in many cases a money-losing proposition, but the dog tracks are forced to continue it because they have to have races in order to operate the lucrative casinos.
We’ve sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we’ve never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.
I don’t have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El Paso. I remember being chased by tumbleweeds on windy days; they came up to my neck.
Well, I like the idea of seeing every piece of music as fluid. I see the tracks as places almost, structures you can inhabit and explore.
I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.
What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that’s healthy, I think.
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I’d give up after a few minutes. I’d find other things to do: Anything but writing.
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and ‘OK Computer’ is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like ‘Electioneering’ just rips right through me.
When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.
My older brothers would scour the railway tracks for lumps of fallen coal to keep us warm and we’d sleep, top to tail, three to a bed. So we were seriously poor in every way except for one. We were rich in love.
I’ve got perfectionist issues, as I can’t seem to let tracks out the studio – it drives my manager nuts.
Making 13-minute tracks is pretty alternative, I think!
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
There are no movie references that I can think of in ‘Robopocalypse.’ However, there are tons of personal references. For example, the IP address that Lurker tracks actually goes back to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied robotics.
Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that’s looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I’m putting the tracks together.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
I had this one producer who sent me tracks because he saw my YouTube videos that were popular and got a couple million views.
I don’t tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.
I really love crafting albums and thinking of albums as a whole, not just individual songs or singles or just tracks, but a whole entire album.
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.
Engineering has proven to be one of the most fruitful tracks of study in the job market, as the skills and training developed by an engineering program are far more versatile than many believed.
It wasn’t as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.
Certain key words, like, ‘break it down,’ ‘this is how we do it’ – they’ll always end up on my tracks.
I’m a big fan of the trope of ‘the poor boy meets the wealthy girl.’ I like the idea of this boy from the other side of the tracks who doesn’t have a lot, but he’ll give that little bit that he has to you.
I don’t like to classify my own tracks as a genre.
