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Quotes About Recording

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.
~ Frankie Ballard
I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.
~ Conor Oberst
'Been That Way' is a song that Timbaland gave me. Actually, the beat is. And then he called me to come out there to Miami. I went out there to work with him, and he gave me two beats for my project. One was 'Sorry Not Sorry,' and the other one was 'Been That Way,' and I recorded both of them in my hotel.
~ Bryson Tiller
People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.
~ Charlie Watts
You can't just plug your guitar in your computer and make it sound like an old record.
~ Frank Dukes
Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
~ Vir Das
Lataji defines the sound of Indian music, and I always had a secret desire of recording with her at least once.
~ Shankar Mahadevan
I recorded 'Play God' in a shed. I don't know how we got it to sound as good as it did.
~ Sam Fender
Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind buying a BMW recording and installing it in my '96 Jeep Cherokee.
~ Serge Schmemann
When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.
~ Ritchie Blackmore
There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.
~ Jonny Greenwood
I never thought I would be recording on any professional level, so to be doing a rockabilly, Motown, pop soundtrack in a L.A. studio was completely bizarre and amazing.
~ Maia Mitchell
The only way for you to really know how your voice sounds to others is to record yourself. You will likely be surprised by how different it sounds when you hear it played back. Analyze the recording to find where and how you could make improvements. Note the tone, the pitch, and the rhythm of your speech patterns. Do your words flow smoothly, or do you stop and start and interrupt yourself with ums and ahs? Just by hearing yourself you will be able to make many improvements.
~ Napoleon Hill
The next morning, I play the recording for Ocky. It is regular Friends. Monica makes a pie.
~ Charlie Kaufman
All the mistakes we make are documented.
~ David Dobrik
If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.
~ Zaytoven
Every record I've made, I've mixed and engineered at home.
~ Bonobo
I used Coldplay's mixer, Michael H. Brauer, on 'Roadsinger'; he's brilliant. He won a Grammy for their record.
~ Cat Stevens
I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.
~ Paolo Nutini
That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
~ Rickey Medlocke
She took a small device out of her bag, slipped it into her pocket. Micro recorder? Roarke clucked his tongue. I believe that's illegal. Not to mention rude. I don't know what you're talking about. And unnecessary, he added. He turned his wrist, tapped a tiny button on the side of his watch. This one is much more efficient. I should know. I manufacture both brands. He smiled as the car stopped at the edge of a small clearing
~ J.D. Robb
Porque no los contaron en el último censo y por consiguiente no tienen números y por consiguiente no existen. Son fantasmas.
~ J.M. Coetzee
The Prophecy is not ours. It is the property of history. As it was foretold, so it shall be. First as the future, then as the present when the time is nigh. And after that, with recording, it shall be the sacred past, the saving of the species, the end of the war.
~ J.R. Ward
Det var nye divaer som entret scenen nå: den gnistrende Callas fra Amerika, den majestetiske Joan Sutherland fra Australia, i tillegg til den forbløffende Kiri te Kanawa fra New Zealand, som akkurat hadde utgitt sin første plate etter et engasjement ved London Opera Center.
~ Tamara McKinley