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“Producers and studios have produced a mixed bunch of genres. I am a producer who happens to be an author and a publisher so I produce and publish in multiple genres.”

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Author:Kailin Gow

“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.”

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Author:Roger McGuinn

“What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.”

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Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.”

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Author:Vic Morrow

“Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.”

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Author:Bruce Nauman

“We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It's really humbling.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.”

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Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.”

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Author:Bob Odenkirk

“Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.”

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Author:Chris Ofili

“The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.”

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Author:Chris Ofili

“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.”

“I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.”

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Author:Andy Partridge

“My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke.”

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Author:Michael Pitt

“I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.”

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Author:Ryan Phillippe

“You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.”

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Author:Aidan Quinn

“I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.”

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Author:Haley Reinhart

“I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.”

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Author:Jackson Rathbone

“It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.”

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Author:Mark Rydell

“When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.”

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Author:Nicole Richie

“I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.”

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Author:Rick Rubin

“Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.”

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Author:Fred Seibert

“I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.”

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Author:John Slattery

“You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.”

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Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.”

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Author:Andy Summers

“I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.”

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Author:Ashlee Simpson

“There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is Zodiac, and that didn't perform that well.”

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Author:Chloe Sevigny

“In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.”

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Author:David Sanborn

“I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.”

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Author:David Sylvian

“I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.”

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Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.”

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Author:Howard Stringer

“I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.”

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Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.”

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Author:Kodi Smit-McPhee

“I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?”

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Author:Jeff Lynne

“A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.”

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Author:Julian Lennon

“There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.”

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Author:Jenny Slate

“Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.”

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Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.”

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Author:Michael Schenker

“I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.”

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Author:Regina Spektor

“So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.”

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Author:Rupert Sanders

“In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people.”

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Author:Sarah Sutton

“If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.”

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Author:Bruno Tonioli

“I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?”

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Author:Juno Temple

“I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.”

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Author:Obie Trice

“I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.”

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Author:Keith Urban

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