Recording Quotes
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I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.
Slash
Guns N' Roses
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In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.
Alexis Taylor
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I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.
Debra Hamel
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To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.
Eric Hutchinson
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There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point where you're comfortable enough to put a stamp on it and send it out there, but even after recording it, when you're playing it live, you hear different harmonies, you hear different notes, you hear different tempos or peaks and valleys in the song.
Chuck Ragan
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The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."
Wilfrid Sheed
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
Sallust
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I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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To be honest, I think I have a nice voice. A good voice... and I loved recording.
George Chakiris
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Recording Hysteria and Rick's accident, and the Steve thing, but that was over a period of years. I miss him more now than I did when he first died. I think about him all the time. It bugs me more now. What a waste!
Phil Collen
Def Leppard
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This recording was very special in the sense that I was free to create and play my best. Chick is a very intelligent person and sensitive to people and situations. ... The way he communicates is not going to close your mind, it's going to open your mind.
Airto Moreira
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In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.
Geoff Zanelli
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I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.
Paul Westerberg
The Replacements
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You learn new song until you're comfortable with it to where you can record it blindfolded, but then when it comes out on the record, you forget about those little nuances and those little things that you changed during the recording process. It's those spur-of-the-moment things you do that makes it an entirely new beast that you then again have to relearn.
Chuck Ragan
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I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
Ben Rosenfield
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Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.
Eddie Harris
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The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.
Edwyn Collins
