Quotes About Studio

I never used to be able to work on the road, I was always strictly in the studio. But not everything's gotten smaller - I have Ableton on the laptop now and a sample library, which means I can use that downtime to pour it into the music.

My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.

We discovered there were three very specific ways of being in the Strokes. One was in the studio, one was in the face of the media and the other was playing shows.

I did a show a long, long time ago called 'Cooking Mexican'. It was a studio show as opposed to on-location like the one I do now. Before my first show, I was a cooking instructor, and I did a whole lot of classes for home cooks about Mexican food.

I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

If I get in the studio, it's very organic. I like to go off how I feel.

Certain stories need the resources of a studio. If you're telling a story about a giant robot war in outer space, you're going to need the money and the resources most of the time to do it justice.

Music is the outlet for me because when I do step into the studio, I feel no barriers.

I'll go in the studio and hear a track that I don't like, and they're trying to pay me to rap over it. But I'll tell them I just can't do it. And when they ask why, I say, 'Because then somebody's gonna hear it... damn, find another track.'

One night David decided to start a spoken word album; David loved Iggy's stories about his days with The Stooges. For a few nights in a row, David, and I sat in the darkened studio asking Iggy questions with the tape rolling. The stories were both decadent and hilarious. I have never heard these tapes since; they would make perfect Podcasts.

One day Ron Mael of Sparks casually asked Morgan what he thought of the recording we were making. Morgan gave it a thought and wisely said, 'You have to put more sound between the speakers', stretching his arms wide. Ron turned to me with a surprised expression on his face and said, 'Wow.' Morgan's suggestion made us widen the stereo soundscape of that mix.

There are ways of entering the dream / The way a painter enters a studio: / To spill.

It may be that a man has only a given power of decision, and if he uses it all up, making vital choices every day in his studio, he has none left for everyday life.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

Only Hollywood studio head Harvey Nagila. Nagila was a quadrillionaire from his Oscar-winning film, Naked Coed Zombies from Pluto.

When Huston had returned to the studio after his Eastern trip, he told me, he had found that no preparations at all were under way for The Red Badge of Courage. 'Those uniforms just weren't being made!' he said with amazement. 'I went to see L. B., and L. B. told me he had no faith in the picture. He didn't believe it would make money.

Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.