Quotes About Studio

Band on the Run' was pretty significant for me because two of the guys didn't turn up to record it. It was just me and Paul. The two of us had to go into the studio and make that album ourselves. With Linda of course.

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

I work on my own music every day. I'm pretty much always working on it so it's like, after I get out the studio, I just want silence.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

I really just wanted to work on adventure games, so Pinkerton Road is our own little indie studio that's focused on that.

My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it's still best to do it in a studio.

The studio is spending great amounts of money, and they want some insurance they will get money back. They go for the middle of the road, broad in appeal. It's restrictive. It's a constant struggle, but if you give in, you're just making cottage cheese, and that's the end of it.

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie.

Studio people are bright. Empowering. They don't want to have to interfere creatively. That's their horror story, too.

They're right. Los Angeles isn't a city. It's a gigantic, sprawling, ongoing studio. Everything is off the record. People don't have time to apologize for its not being a city when their civilized friends suspect them of losing track of the point.

Work and love—the two best things—flourish in studios. It's when you have to go outside and define everything that they often disappear.

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

Oh, my, thank you, thank you so much, welcome to "The New Price is Right"; and let me assure you fans of the old "Price is Right" that this is your favorite game still based on the pricing of merchandise with wonderful awards for smart shoppers. We call it "The New Price is Right" because we have some exciting new games that you will enjoy right there at home with our studio audience, and we're going to get that first game going right now.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything else - even though it was a genre film and existed at a more studio level, the script and the characters were so well written.

Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.

'Free Mind' was a song written over a couple of years. It was pretty much three different songs that I couldn't figure out how to put together - until one day, when I was in the studio, it kind of just fell into place.