1002 Studio Quotes for You to Enjoy

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. Tom Waits

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My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation. David Guetta

Work Music Generation Everybody Computer Studio Make Same Laptop

Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on. Robert Smith

Home Before Vocals Studio Put Makeup Got Any Whenever Even

And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part. Billy Sheehan

First Type Part Step Studio Toward Becoming Any Again Businessman

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio. Bruce Springsteen

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. David Byrne

I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to hear it. You sit in the studio all this time and make the music, tweak it, try to get it perfect. They should be able to hear it that way. Dr. Dre

I started young. My first record came out when I was - what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16. Heavy D

First Young Out Record Studio Came Started

Most of the time, when you are in the studio, you are revealing yourself; you're a bit naked. You can express your weaknesses, your awkward way of approaching sound. Sharing these intimate moments is like inviting somebody into your private room. Jean-Michel Jarre

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I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it. Joan Collins

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Your intention going in is to do the best you can. You go in and do your work, day to day, the best you can. But it's entirely up to the director and the editor and the producers and the studio how it turns out. John Candy

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The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record. Lesley Gore

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If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them. Marilyn Monroe

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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio. Orson Welles

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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out. Sade Adu

Emotions Out Detach Studio Come Go

'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear. Tom Petty

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We allow no geniuses around our Studio. Walt Disney

Our Allow Studio Geniuses Around

The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries. A. R. Rahman

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I used to record songs, like, play the beat from one phone and have another phone recording me and just rap. Moving from that to a studio was like, 'Damn, I never knew I could sound like this.' It was just magic. A Boogie wit da Hoodie

One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease. Ace Frehley

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