Quotes About Dedication

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.

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.

Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

When I went to Gabriel Roth's studio, I showed him I was good with my hands and started working as a handyman in his studio. I asked him for a chance, and he gave me a song to sing with Sharon Jones.

Let me tell you something about Tunechi - about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn't have a dollar in his pocket.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

I have a studio at home, and do 3 hours a day that way.

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.

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.

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

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.

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.

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.

I started young. My first record came out when I was - what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16.

I live in the studio and I'm inspired.

I'm in the studio every other night. I live there. I sleep there.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.