Quotes About Music

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.

I used almost every penny I ever made to build recording studios in every city I lived in. I don't have much to show for all the TV money except a lot of musical gear and a lot of songs.

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

I first came to Abbey Road Studios in 1994. I scored 'Little Women' there. What I remember most about it was how hard it was to come to London from Los Angeles and conduct when you're jetlagged.

I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers, and they work their magic.

Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.

Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

I grew up always around music through my father - I would play in music studios with him as I was growing up - and my high school, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.

Being on a K-pop label and agency, everything's taken care of for you. The music is set up for you. Your food, manager, practice room, recording studios - all these things are in the palm of your hand. However, you know the compromise of what you can actually do or say.

As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.

I played drums since I was 6 years old. And then I got into producing music when I was about 16 or 17. Somebody showed me FL Studios, the program. My beats were bad at first, but then eventually they started to get good.

Abbey Road was actually one of the first studios I ever got the chance to go to. A friend of mine won a competition and got the chance to spend a day recording there - that's when I was around 15 - and I was the only one who could engineer out of all of us.

I've been hanging around movie sets and recording studios since I can remember.

I've always relied on a big producer and big studios. I had budgets that were ridiculous.

Many music directors have studios at home.

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

By the time I finished school, I found out I wasn't qualified to study anything but music.

We've noticed that even though we sing in Japanese, our fans study Japanese and sing along with us, and that people who like J-pop and people who like metal both enjoy our music just the same.