Recording Studio Quotes

• I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

  Grace Slick

  Song, Simplicity, Recording Music

  "Summer of Love: 40 Years Later / Grace Slick" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. May 20, 2007.

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• I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Creative, Roles, States

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• You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

  Anne Hathaway

  Technology, Singing, Notes

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• Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

  Brian Setzer

  Thinking, Done, Records

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• Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

  Michael Jackson

  Sleep, Three, Records

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• I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

  John Tesh

  Jobs, Mean, Piano

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• I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

  James Iha

  People, Remix, Studios

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• I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

  T Bone Burnett

  School, Producers, Engineers

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• I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

  Tommy Lee

  Computer, Engineers, Studios

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• My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Father, Men, Musician

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• If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

  Brian Eno

  Doors, Musical, Different

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• You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

  Paul Stanley

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

  Diego Boneta

  Personality, Different, Albums

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 30, 2012.

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• When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

  Jill Shalvis

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.

  Johnny Cash

  Guitar, One Day, Steps

  Source: wrvo.org

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• Recording studios are filled with technology. They are set in their ways. And to update them means you'd have to change them back. That would be my idea of upgrading. And this will never happen. As far as I know, recording studios are booked all the time. So obviously people like all the improvements. The more technically advanced they are, the more in demand they become.

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Technology, Ideas

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.

  Lenny Kravitz

  School, Rats, Temples

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.

  Tom Waits

  Drama, Believe, Hands

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through a door to the other, like encountering a neighbor in the hallway going into the apartment next to one’s own. In the recording studio, I would often lie down to nap and wake up with harmony parts fully formed in my mind, ready to be recorded. I think of music as dreaming in sound.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

  Moby

  Bridges, Musician, Looks

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• I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

  Abbie Cornish

  Littles, Laptops, Studios

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• I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

  Huey Lewis

  Home, Track, Office

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• The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a highly personal way - I would single out the Beatles, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and Thom Bell.

  Jon Landau

  Beach, Artist, Boys

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• I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

  Corbin Bleu

  Process, Studios, Felt

  "New Corbin Bleu Interview". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2007.

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• Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Careers, Support

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