Studio Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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 like to fool with the stuff and I go up in my little studio and once you get into it, you may stay there hours doing it.
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I had a little studio and I was there, making hip-hop. I knew Florence and she was next door in these studios where her boyfriend at the time was getting his guitar fixed. I said to her: “do you want to make a song today?” and she said “why not?” so we started working together.
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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 think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
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That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.
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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.
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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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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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Every studio needs a rubber chicken.
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We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.
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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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I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control...
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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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I don't want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it's hard to get into the studio and do what I do.
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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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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 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.
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I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.
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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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Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
