Quotes by Tony Visconti

Tony Visconti

But some great records are are being made with today’s technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn’t have emerged when recording was more organic.

Artist

Records

Technology

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

Bad Day

Fun

Ideas

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

Culture

Giving

Responsibility

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

Flying

New York

Writing

I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.

Feelings

I like to work with people who have a sense of putting a song over, and can sing in tune, and with passion. With technology you can polish a turd, but there’s still no button you can press for passion.

Passion

Song

Technology

I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don’t need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don’t even need [analog] tape.

Needs

Tape

Thinking

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Jobs

New York

Senior

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

Brand New

Brands

Vintage

My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Dad

Friends

Quick Wit

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Bad Day

Brand New

Brands

Christmas

Culture

Dad

Directors

Dollars

Father

Feelings

Flying

Friends

Fun

Gears

Giants

Giving

Groups

Ideas

Jobs

Needs

New York

Opinion

Passion

Past

Productions

Profession

Queens

Quick Wit

Records

Responsibility

Rock And Roll

Rocks

Science

Senior

Sleep

Song

Sound

Stars

Tape

Technology

Thinking

Today

Vintage

Writing

Years

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Quotes by Tony Visconti

Tony Visconti

But some great records are are being made with today’s technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn’t have emerged when recording was more organic.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.

I like to work with people who have a sense of putting a song over, and can sing in tune, and with passion. With technology you can polish a turd, but there’s still no button you can press for passion.

I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don’t need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don’t even need [analog] tape.

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

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