#on

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

— Tony Visconti

#brand new #called #easily #new #now

My profession is called record production. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#production #profession #record

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#enormous #faith #family #leap #leap of faith

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#cities #days #groupies #i #interviewed

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#did #else #everybody #everybody else #everything

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#charge #directly #director #film #hired

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#could #dad #english #experience #guitar

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#instruments #involved #more #musician #often

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#been #fiction #forty #forty years #recording

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#always #demos #making #monsters #right