Tony Visconti Quotes

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.
Tony Visconti

Great, Rock, Past

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
Tony Visconti

Good, Christmas, Father

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.
Tony Visconti

Great, Technology, Today

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
Tony Visconti

Computers, Replaced, Recorders

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.
Tony Visconti

Fun, Bad, Sense

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.
Tony Visconti

Music, Great, Death

Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.
Tony Visconti

Fun, Brain, Working

I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!
Tony Visconti

Good, Young, Fact

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.
Tony Visconti

Work, Forget, Wonderful

I am not a creature of habit.
Tony Visconti

Habit, Creature

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.
Tony Visconti

Teacher, Father, Days

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.
Tony Visconti

Music, Live, Sound

I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.
Tony Visconti

Feelings, Keep, Reviewing

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.
Tony Visconti

Love, Through, Same

I make records with an open mind, I always have.
Tony Visconti

Mind, Open, Records

In August most of Europe goes on holiday.
Tony Visconti

Holiday, Goes, Europe

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.
Tony Visconti

Life, Great, Father

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

Once, Vintage, Brand

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.
Tony Visconti

Guitar, Inspired, Band

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.
Tony Visconti

Humor, Family, Movies

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.
Tony Visconti

Family, School, Father

My father loved people, children and pets.
Tony Visconti

Dad, Father, Children

My profession is called record production.
Tony Visconti

Production, Profession

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

Faith, Family, Else

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

Rock, Sleep, Once

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Nationality: American

Born: April 24, 1944

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