Theres no relation between TIME spent and QUALITY of music. -The same applies to how many tracks there is in a song

Bounce MIDI to AUDIO. - its good practice committing to ideas - it enables you to see your ideas in a new light - Better stability in your DAW

COLOR CODE! - It keeps project organised - Its nice on the eyes/mind

SIDECHAIN COMPRESS before playing in parts. Bass and instruments.

OFFSET claps. - This stops claps getting lost in the mix

PRACTICE WORKING FAST. Learn your DAW shortcuts

give your song a NARRATIVE/Set the tone. -using samples, like vocal samples

FOCUS on IMPORTANT rhythmic/melodic ideas early on. Dont waste time layering sounds

Fix from SOURCE whenever possible. KEEP processing clean & calculated REMOVE silences for a cleaner mix

THINK: in terms of ENERGY, RHYTHM, VIBE, EMOTION. NOT: punchy, clean, analog, mono

Only EQ/COMPRESS when needed.

when you see a SPECTRUM ANALYSER, think in terms of OCTAVES

BOUNCE REVERB to AUDIO. then you can filter/ precisely control it

SYNCOPATION IS KEY TO DANCE MUSIC. Syncopate a vox sample and synth or kick

USE WHITE NOISE to fill empty space subtly

MONO is LOUDER, so use it when you can.

ALWAYS START your track with an interesting IDEA

AUTOMATION - Name your automation channels. E.G filter sweeps

Create TEMPLATES in your daw. Work from these rather than blank projects. Speeds up the creative process when laying down new ideas.

DRUMS SIDECHAIN EVERYTHING to KICK DRUM Test KICK and SNARE on multiple sources make the KICK the loudest peak in the song (makes mastering alot easier)

BASS SUB BASS should sit 1-2 octaves below root note. No reverb on bass Length of kick decides room for bass

LEADS group layers turn off individual track fx use 1 compressor/ reverb on whole group delay>reverb>saturation

VOCAL SAMPLES make more SYNTHS/FX from VOX SAMPLES. - humans love human voice.

We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say but what we are trying to hide.

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.

People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung cancer. And I think people are able to also understand, when they are told they are a carrier for a genetic disease, that is not a risk to them personally but something that they could pass on to children.

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants only obedient ants.

If you don’t like where you are, move. You are not a tree.

It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

But grieving people are selfish. They wont let you comfort them and they say you dont understand and they make you feel useless when all your life youve been functional to them.

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

At some point you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point the final decisions need to be yours. At some point you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.

Any disaster is a learning process.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.