Top 18 Tony Visconti Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.

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

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production‘s sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

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.

My profession is called record production.

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

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

In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

My father loved people, children and pets.

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.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

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!