Studio Quotes

• Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Canvas
  • Studio
  • Criticized

• I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

  

  Chris Shiflett Foo Fighters
  • Day
  • Lucky
  • Studio

• I have a studio at home where I record all of my solo material from the beginning 'til the very end, thus also the ideas which later on will find their way onto yet another Mike & The Mechanics album.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Beginning
  • Album
  • Studio

• There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• "I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Time
  • Sang
  • Yoko

• 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
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Done
  • Night

• We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Sing
  • Studio
  • Fancy

• In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Director
  • Studio
  • Controls

• It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Studio
  • Wander
  • Imagined

• I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Studio
  • Compelled
  • Home Studio

• Musicians today have gotten used to Protools, which I hate. You can go into the studio and not even be a musician, just start beating on stuff and they can take parts out of it, move it around and then you can sound like Slash. If you want some kind of weird feedback effect in the middle of a guitar solo, now they can just fly it in. You don't have to sit there and work at it like you did back in the day.

  

  Mick Mars Mötley Crüe
  • Sound
  • Musicians
  • Feedback

• Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Sell
  • Units
  • Stay In

• We work together a lot. So we don't really sit around after five days in the studio. We've got families, so we all like to be home when we can. We're not into any rock-star lifestyle or partying or clubbing or anything. We've generally seen enough of each other by the end of the week.

  

  Adrian Utley Portishead
  • Home
  • Families
  • Lifestyle

• I don't practice. It's a gift. It's talent. Obviously, I do it all the time so it's like I'm practicing, but that's just what I do. Sometimes I'll be in the studio flipping through beats and I'll do something quick and people will be like, "What the?!" It's natural! I don't need to be nice like that, I just do it.

  

  AraabMuzik
  • Talent
  • Studio
  • Practicing

• Things are very simple to be honest: when we arrive at the studio for a session, we just get going and let it go naturally and improvise as we go along, this is why it is always so magical when we go into a studio. It is just so natural for us to put a song together.

  

  Nicola Sirkis Indochine
  • Song
  • Natural
  • Studio

• I don't have any desire to go back into the studio, and I certainly don't have any desire to go back on the road.

  

  Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Desire
  • Road
  • Studio

• The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • Way
  • Head
  • Studio

• You know, I do feel as though it’s more of a follow-up. I mean, we recorded this record live and in the fashion that I really wanted to do that first Bash & Pop record, although it didn’t quite turn out as live a record as we planned. The first one, anyway. So this one actually has more of a live rock ‘n’ roll band feel to it. And I really kinda wanted to make a record where I wasn’t wearing too many hats at once and I could actually, you know, capture some of the essence of a rock band playing live together in the studio.

  

  Tommy Stinson The Replacements
  • Band
  • Record
  • Planned

• For years, more women were steered toward the studio or toward being a reporter. If that's what you want to do and that's what you love - by all means, go do it. That's OK to be ambitious and do things that are out of the norm if that's the route you want to take. We're already seeing women breaking down those barriers in what was once male-dominated. There are opportunities for women to fill those roles.

  

  Beth Mowins
  • Love
  • Opportunities
  • Reporter

• We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Wanted
  • Studio
  • Recording

• In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

  

  Norman Jewison
  • Films
  • Rights
  • Studio

• I think it was Fox, actually; Fox, the studio, which had sold the rights to the television show, as I understand it, but had retained the film rights.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Studio
  • Fox
  • Television Show

• Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.

  

  Erwin Blumenfeld
  • Try
  • Studio
  • Penetrate

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