Quotes About Music

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

That's a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.

I mean for me, I can't really say I differentiate 'cause when I go into the studio to make music, I just make music. Sometimes, it just ends up with me, and sometimes it doesn't.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.

For more than 10 years, Daniel Snaith has been playing mad scientist with pop and psychedelic music. As Manitoba, and more recently as Caribou, he's pushed the genres' limits with electronics and studio trickery.

I love music and hopefully I'll be able to do something with it - I just have to find time to get into the studio and record a few songs.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio, hoping somebody would get sick or get hurt and that we'd get to sub for them.

I stay in the studio. I'm a studio junkie.

One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

'Close To The Edge,' we actually had played it from beginning to end before we recorded it in the studio. So we knew how long it was, and we knew it would fit on the album fine, so we didn't do any editing.

On the low, I've been in Kanye's studio, No Name, out in L.A.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

I remember one day going in the studio to sing and then going to work with three separate songwriters before I came back in the studio. I was running on empty.