Studio Quotes
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I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on 'Late Night.' We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.
Norm MacDonald
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We have a small UK tour booked and some studio time and a lot of drinking and partying and talking like pirates! Hahaha!
Roger O'Donnell The Cure
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Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.
Asher Brown Durand
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Studio gives me the option to bring in bands and mixers that I really want to be in here so there’s lots of uses for this place. I don’t have to run it to make money so I can focus on working on projects that I really like.
Jeff Waters Annihilator
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Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.
Raven Goodwin
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I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.
Rick Ross
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I've never went into the studio looking for a certain direction for my next production. I make music that I enjoy and whatever flows in my head when I'm in the studio is how the track is going to turn out.
Nicky Romero
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I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode
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When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.
Marilyn Monroe
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Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.
Ramin Djawadi
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It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
Nuno Bettencourt
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I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.
Casey Spooner
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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 Roxy Music
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When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.
Alice Neel
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While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
Robin Trower Procol Harum
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I don't care more about '13' because it's in the Olivier than I did about 'Cock' in a 100-seat studio. They both matter because it's still a person sat there watching your play. And the play has to be good enough - because there are a hundred other writers out there who deserve to have their play on instead.
Mike Bartlett
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It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead
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I think it's my job to fight. The studio makes you question your idea, and you have to prove it.
Miguel Sapochnik
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Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
Eric Maisel
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A lot of people say don't let bad vibes into the studio, but I love to. If you're having a bad day, write a song that feels like that.
Ricky Reed