Quotes About Recording

I get really angsty if I've got songs building up and I haven't gotten them recorded.

The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful Capital pretty much wanted to hear nothing but 'Go All The Way.'

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.

I think there's an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn't really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn't sound right; I didn't like how my voice sounded. It was just raw.

My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.

I do wish we recorded the early stuff we did, because we basically had an album.

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

In 1966 I recorded my first bolero album. I was about 18 years old then and I recorded it because I wanted my parents to know that I hadn't lost my identity of being Latino.

We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the songs rather than it being a giant production.

I knew Jim was going down, but was very pleased that somehow, despite his self-destruction, when we rehearsed, wrote songs and recorded, he showed up. He pulled it together.

It's an amazing privilege to perform for an audience paying to hear the music that you've recorded.

I recorded everywhere. I would go to different cities and do a session there for the project. I did sessions in New York and I did sessions in L.A. It was just kind of wherever I was and I felt like cutting a track.

My predecessors in this business of acting were fully convinced their work would never be recorded, except in the form of reviews or paintings.

Rockfield is a famous studio where we recorded early Simple Minds songs. It holds a bit of our own history and Queen recorded 'Bohemian Rhapsody' there.

Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.

I had a recording contract with Capitol Records. I loved recording and being in that studio. I made four albums.

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.