Tony Visconti Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.”