Recording Studio Quotes - Page 2

• I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.

  Booker T. Jones

  Jobs, Age, Records

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.

  Diana Ross

  Memories, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Littles, Rooms, Tiny

  Interview with David Blaine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2014.

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• The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

  Bob Dylan

  Taken, Thinking, Clothes

  "Bob Dylan: '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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• I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

  Pete Townshend

  Paris, Rolling, Records

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• And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.

  John Frusciante

  Life, Horny, Trying

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. And you can create beauty when you're in that sort of deprived environment, which is a re-creation of your formative years.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Beach, Views, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

  Julian Lennon

  Thinking, People, Grew Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like recording studios - except my own,
  which is just a little room above the garage.

  Keith Jarrett

  Littles, Rooms, Garage

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• When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

  John Lennon

  Humble, Albums, Records

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

  Clint Black

  Home, Use, Records

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• I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

  Mark Ronson

  Song, Morning, Studios

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• When I go in to the recording studio, I already know almost exactly what I am going to do, but when I go to set, it is really a wildcard. I have no idea what is going to happen.

  Joshua Rush

  Ideas, Wildcard, Happens

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• In my opinion, there's this new phenomenon where guys used to talk about cars a lot in the past. But, more and more it's becoming them talking about recording studios.

  Fred Armisen

  Past, Talking, Car

  "Fred Armisen Welcomes You Back To 'Portlandia'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. January 2, 2013.

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• Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.

  Jerry Harrison

  Taught Us, Use, Brian

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• Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

  Chuck Noll

  Basketball, Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational

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• When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.

  Thomas Dolby

  Ocean, Character, Ice

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• Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.

  Judy Greer

  Littles, Location, Studios

  Source: collider.com

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• The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.

  Andrew S. Gilbert

  Home, Musical, Musician

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• I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.

  Jack Black

  Thinking, Long, Silence

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Hysteria, East

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• PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge. He paged through a book of promotional photos of himself, one of which was shot shortly after 911. It featured him holding a copy of the Bible upright in one palm while the Koran rose from the other the Twin Towers. Some of the record company people, they wouldn't let me put this out, ... They said it would be too controversial. But this picture is saying 'Look, they can stand together. Don't have to be no fight.'

  Beanie Sigel

  New York, Book, Fighting

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• Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

  William S. Burroughs

  Artist, Color, Museums

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• I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience. The vocal performances are reported for over several years and the actors are very rarely in recording studios together. That's why the editor has got to all these different performances and edit them together to create the illusion of spontaneity and real action.

  Lee Unkrich

  Real, Cutting, Editing

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• 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

  White, Black, Bars

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