Quotes About Recording

Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then write it down.

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.

I am building an archive. I don't need for anyone to tell me that I matter. I am just going to record it for myself.

It's an enthralling experience to be in front of the mic and record a song.

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

I'd never record digitally. It's not because its' a horrible way to record, it's just not the best way to record my music, because my music is rawer, darker and a little more nostalgic.

Sometimes I'll be driving and a lyric will come into my head, and I will have to pull over and record it on my phone.

I always needed a Ty Dolla $ign feature because I'm a big fan of his and he always asked when I was going to send him a record.

I learned that I can't be as indulgent as I'd like to be when I record.

I can't freestyle or else I'll just start saying anything, so I'll write the song first and then record. I'll rap to the producer and he'll make the beat off my rap.

You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.

There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on my iPhone.

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

I had recorded a song 'If You Need Me' for the Correc-Tone label, but it was a small label and distribution was a problem.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

I often haven't heard the music since I've recorded it. I don't listen to it. When I do hear it, like at someone's house, I'll listen. I'm probably the most pleased with the stuff I did with New Grass Revival.

I've always recorded at home. That's been part of what it's about to me. I've never been the kind of guy who rents a studio.

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

In the old days, all the movie songs were recorded right there on set.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.