A biography for Tony Viscontihasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.”
“Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.”
“Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.”
“The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.”
“No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.”
“Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.”
“It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.”
“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 keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.”
“Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.”