Studio Quotes
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I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.
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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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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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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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Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
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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 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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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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Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made, I was inspired in particular by how the Beatles were innovating when they were making those records late in their career while using the studio in a maximal way.
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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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That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.
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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 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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It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.
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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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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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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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I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.
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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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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 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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You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?
