Quotes About Music

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end.

Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you.

I shout at the radio when someone starts talking over the end of a song. Shut up! I don't want to hear that the DJ has just found a mouldy sandwich in the corner of the studio. Nor do I like it when the magic of something you're watching is shattered by an advert for Argos.

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.

I knew Chester. I've known Chester since 2001. I was in a band called Dry Cell, and we were signed by the same guy that signed Linkin Park, so that's how I knew him. He would come to some of our writing sessions and rehearsals; I'd see him in the studios that we were at.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

I remember showing Prince around Warners' recording studios. He was the nicest kid.

Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the opportunity to collaborate with that many people, like in rock or jazz.

From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into Olympic Studios to record the first album, and then going to America, which we crack open like a nut with the debut record - all that happened, literally, within months.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

When I was working on the music of 'Jaan-E-Mann' and 'Umrao Jaan,' my father was hospitalised. I had to shuttle between hospital and studios.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.