Quotes About Recording

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.

I'm gonna film my entire life and watch it later!

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.

It helped me to deal with the feelings, too. Talking them out. Even if it was only to a recorder.

Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.

I am a great believer that you should record more than you need and then use the absolute best.

Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.

Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

So, I'll walk around with - just an iPhone will work - but sometimes I'll bring, like, a little mobile recorder and I'll just, like, if hear an interesting sound, I'll just record it. And then later, I'll listen through them and I'll go like, 'I wonder how can I use that?'

When we were recording, sometimes I wondered if what we were doing would even be possible to play live.