Tony Visconti Quotes - Page 2

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• I make records with an open mind, I always have.

  Tony Visconti

  Mind, Records, Open Mind

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• 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

  Friends, Dad, Quick Wit

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

  Tony Visconti

  Faith, Musician, Enormous

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• Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK and I had hit records I would also have a high tax bill at the end of the year, and that would be the time to buy up all the technology - it was write offs.

  Tony Visconti

  Writing, Technology, Years

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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

  Tony Visconti

  Sound, Brooklyn, Grew Up

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• 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

  Stars, Sleep, Rocks

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• 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

  New York, Writing, Flying

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• Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they want to know. I tell them, "Sign a hundred people! Throw it against the wall and see which ones stick!" And they frown and say, "Oh, we can't do that!" and they start mumbling about demographics and this and that.

  Tony Visconti

  Wall, People, Labels

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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

  Tony Visconti

  Scary, Monsters, Albums

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• Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

  Tony Visconti

  Cities, Paris, World

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• 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 Day, Ideas

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• The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.

  Tony Visconti

  Giving, Groups, Dollars

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Christmas, Song, Father

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• My father loved people, children and pets.

  Tony Visconti

  Children, Dad, Father

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• 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

  Senior, Jobs, New York

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• I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different groups - not millions of dollars per group, but, you know, a few thousand. Throw them in the studio, and if five of those groups came out with a hit record it would be money well spent.

  Tony Visconti

  Groups, Different, Dollars

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

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  Tape, Computer, Classroom

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• Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

  Tony Visconti

  Art, Teenager, Years

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• Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.

  Tony Visconti

  Albums, Records, Ignored

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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