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When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

— Patty Loveless

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✓Similar Perspectives

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

— Beck

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

— Barry Gibb

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.

— Christian Marclay

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.

— Hilary Duff

There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.

— David Foster

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

— Chuck Berry

I realized that, for me, great records always moved me with the lyrics and the melodies. And so I said, 'I think I can do it now,' 'cause I found a team of people who understand I didn't want a record that was 'drop it, pop it, shake it' just 'cause I can dance.

— Laurieann Gibson

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

— John Darnielle

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

— David Sanborn

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

— Loudon Wainwright III