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Quotes About Studio

Well I've been playing an SG forever, and I've got some other vintage Gibsons I like to use in the studio.
~ Derek Trucks
Viral don't mean I'm outside wilding. I can go viral in the club or in the studio.
~ Fivio Foreign
In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.
~ Jaco Pastorius
I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
~ Martin Gore
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in that you outline the story that you think should be told, and then you write it. And then, there are notes and you change it, in the conventional studio system.
~ Steven Knight
I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.
~ James Hetfield
The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.
~ Solange Knowles
There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Love is a publicity stunt, and making love - after the first curious raptures - is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.
~ Louise Brooks
Irenée Calfat was a potter. She took hunks of clay and turned them into exquisite works. She'd pioneered a new way to glaze her works and was now sought out by potters worldwide. Of course, after they'd made the pilgrimage to Irenée Calfat's studio in St Rémy and spent five minutes with the Goddess of Mud, they knew they'd made a mistake. She was one of the most self absorbed and petty people on the face of this earth
~ Louise Penny
Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
~ Octavia Spencer
Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.
~ John Ridley
If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.
~ Shaggy
My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that.
~ Shooter Jennings
In the studio, I like to have the music first: I'll sit with the music for like an hour, on loop, and just let it tell me what it feels I should do.
~ Giveon
Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do.
~ Francois Nars
I love playing live; that's the main thing. But I hate being in the studio. It's the most boring thing ever.
~ Lewis Capaldi
Most of the time throughout my day I like to keep it light. Go to the mall or drop by a friend's house, go talk with my family. And then after that it's studio. Studio is kind of a process. It's like an all day thing.
~ Omarion
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
~ Don DeLillo
You dance really well." "I took ballet lessons." She tilted her head back to search his face, certain he was joking. "You did not." "I did. Several of us on the team did. Good for coordination." Resisting the laugh that bubbled up in her throat, she said, "Somehow I can't picture you in tights and a tutu." But he did laugh. "We made sure no one with a camera got within miles of the studio.
~ Jaci Burton
The Beatles were working on an album called Everest (actually named after a brand of cigarettes). When it was suggested they should get the photo for the record cover taken at the actual place the album was named after - and being too lazy to travel to the Himalayas - they renamed it to Abbey Road, which was the street on which their recording studio was.
~ Jack Goldstein
OJ Simpson was the original choice for the role of The Terminator, however the studio insisted on finding someone else - obviously Arnie in the end - as no-one would believe that OJ was a remorseless killer.
~ Jack Goldstein
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
~ Jackson Browne
As they moved from exhibit to exhibit like reluctant tourists in some artist's studio, Buffin sat on a stool with his limbs tense. He was like an exhibit himself in the direct odd light filtering through the whitish panes, legs wound tensely round one another, his face like an apologetic bag.
~ M. John Harrison