As much as sound is important to me as an engineer, it is the performance and the feel that sell the record.

I know a lot of bad-sounding records that were huge hits because they moved people emotionally, and some records that sounded perfect but didn't sell shit.

I still feel that people have trouble relating to things that are perfect.

- Al Schmitt from interview from Inside Tracks - by Richard Buskin
contributed by Derek Sivers from California