Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen, known by stage name Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 July 1970
CountryUnited States of America
years trying records
I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.
years records always-working
I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
song love-is records
There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.
differences done records
You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.
real people records
There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.
starting-over over-you records
Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
inspiration records can-do
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
trying records
I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
home years records
The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
light records different
Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.
people want franklin
There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?
mother children years
I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.
helping-others people use
There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.
thinking years people
For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.