Quotes About Inspiration

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

I consider the recording studio where I was born.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the studio and replay the sample from the original record. But mainly, we'd come up with our own music.

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

I'm big on the studio. I like to stay in it 24/7.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I'm a studio rat.

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other.

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I feel like you listen your whole life, so when you are in the studio, your references are all the songs and music that you know. It just depends on where the songs are going and what attracts you at the moment.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

Movies, there are moments when you're writing a song or demoing, a moment in the recording studio. Musicals much more just eat up your life for a certain period of time.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.