Studio Quotes
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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.
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I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.
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We're not a studio band, so this isn't our best. We still have more to say.
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Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.
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The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
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My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
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Especially early on, I had no idea what I was going to be asked to do when I walked into a studio. I was doing 26 sessions a week - all day, all night.
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I love playing live; that's the main thing. But I hate being in the studio. It's the most boring thing ever.
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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.
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I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
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I like to go into the studio and start work on a project when it's time. I don't like to do it too early or too late.
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Every studio needs a rubber chicken.
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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.
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I always want to be prepared, 'cause you cknow who's going to come to your studio.
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
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Planning is really important. Before you go into the studio, you need to decide what you want to accomplish. After singing a piece through completely, you can go back to work on smaller sections and then incorporate those into the final sing through of a work.
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We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.
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We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture that would continually ask questions.
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You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?
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In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.
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I loved being in the studio, writing songs and playing instruments, so it was like ‘There must be other ways to make a living in music.’”
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Sometimes if you're in the studio for a very long time, you want to get out and play live shows and vice versa.
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Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.
