Studios Quotes - Page 27

• Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

  Chris Isaak

  Fun, Singing, Pressure

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• At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

  Brion James

  Recovery, People, House

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• In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Real, Artist

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• A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

  Jamey Johnson

  Spiritual, Song, Hymns

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• With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Song, Believe, Done

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

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• I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

  Squarepusher

  Ideas, Walks, Rough

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• It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

  Sean Kingston

  Weight, Gains, Easy

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

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• I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.

  Callie Khouri

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "'Nashville's Callie Khouri Talks TV & Women". deadline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

  Callie Khouri

  Country, Nashville, Reason

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• I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

  Keira Knightley

  Different, Opinion, Film

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• The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.

  Solange Knowles

  Dream, Father, Block

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

  Alexander Ludwig

  One Day, Want, Study

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• Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

  Roger McGuinn

  Artist, Years, Laptops

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• What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Sound, Never Change, Producers

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• Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

  Vic Morrow

  Cutting, Pockets, Stories

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• Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Simple, Talking, Opposites

  "One-on-one with Prime Minister Netanyahu". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

  Bruce Nauman

  Thinking, Drawing, Trying

  "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It's really humbling.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Real, Home, Opportunity

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

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Daily Tasks, Lunch, Dinner

  "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Independent, Thinking, Years

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

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• Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

  Chris Ofili

  Thinking, Sudden Change, Has Beens

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

  Chris Ofili

  Ideas, Body, Way

  "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.

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• I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

  Frank Ocean

  Singing, Radio, Firsts

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

  Frank Ocean

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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