Quotes About Recording

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

In 2004, when I started recording my first CD, I was coming right out of yeshiva. So I had spent two years completely immersed in the Hasidic culture, disconnected completely from the secular world - movies, music, people.

I used to have a radio show. That's how I started foolin' around with recording.

Before recording my 'Homeland' audition on my iPhone in my bedroom in Streatham, I hadn't worked or had an audition in the U.K. for nine months.

At some point, I went to the studio and nothing happened. It can be really depressing to sit there and wait for the inspiration that doesn't come. I had to start recording rough song ideas before going to the studio. I did that at home whenever I had a good idea.

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.