“As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.” ShouldWritingEndsRememberArtistSocialEasyRecordsMediaFindingsIndependentCaughtStudiosSocial MediaProducersThe End Of The DayCaught UpWebsiteEasy To GetWriting MusicMerchandise Author:Tyler Hilton
“I like having a song in my head that's never been heard and then going into a studio and recording it and hearing it exist in the world. It's a magical part. Filled with wonder.” WorldSongWonderHeardFilledStudiosHearing Author:Mason Jennings
“When I'm preforming a lot I'm aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to think on my feet and be spontaneous. I like doing that in a live show and I do the same thing in the studio.” ThinkingTryingShowsFeetPerformancesStudiosGet BackSpontaneousLive PerformanceBe Spontaneous Author:Joel Plaskett
“What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.” IfsWorldWayTryingYearsLooksImportantHelpingSoundRoomsEnvironmentAchieveCarMastersHappeningsPerformancesEarsStudiosObjectivesIceDriversEngineersEquipmentLapWhat's ImportantYears Of Experience Author:Chris McCormack
“For the nerd in me, I prefer full quality digital files as they give a truer representation of the source mix, the studio in fact. From these files I can quite often tell what kind of set up made the tracks. For the music lover in me, vinyl is more woosey, richer, more alive, more real, more imperfect and somehow becoming more like life itself. But I don't prefer it per se. The mastering engineer in me always loves to hear it as it was made.” GivingKindMadeI CanRealFactsQualityAliveSourceBecomingLoversTrackStudiosDigitalImperfectEngineersRepresentationNerdFilesBecoming MoreVinylMusic Lover Author:Chris McCormack
“When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.” KnowsPersonsFilmEnvironmentSubjectsFrontsStudiosLandscapeChairsControlled Author:Bill Henson
“I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.” MeanComputerStudiosTapeEquipmentMicsAnalog Author:Adrian Younge
“I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.” PlayBitsEnjoyCoupleGuitarStudiosFar AwaySwearExtensions Author:Andy Summers
“Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.” PeopleKnowsWritingMomentsArtistStageCreationMusicianStudiosArtisticThat MomentClosestTrue ArtistsArtistic Creation Author:Richard Ashcroft
“I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.” ThinkingTryingArtistWeekSixPaidStudios Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.” FunnyLife IsGoalAudienceComedyStudiosHappyIronicBeing HappyTrue HappinessPurpose Driven LifeLife Goal Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I've never went into the studio looking for a certain direction for my next production. I make music that I enjoy and whatever flows in my head when I'm in the studio is how the track is going to turn out.” CertainTurnsNextEnjoyFlowTrackProductionsStudios Author:Nicky Romero
“You've got to do the big studio movies to get your name, but as an actor and for your own well-being you kind of need to step back from that occasionally and do the smaller films. In the end, that's what helps you learn and makes you a better actor.” NeedsWellsKindEndsHelpingBigsFilmActorsNamesStepsStudiosWell Being Author:A. J. Cook
“For me probably the best moment is before I get started in the morning. I get up and I ride my bike before I come into the studio, so there's a lot of peace and quiet right before the day starts and my assistants get here.” MomentsMorningQuietStudiosGet UpBikeAssistantsBest MomentsPeace And Quiet Author:Jacob Hashimoto
“I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.” I CanFightingAmountActivityStudiosManagersGet BackNew Music Author:Rivers Cuomo
“A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.” IfsArtArtistPossibilityPaintingMembersUnionsPaintStudiosArtisticOfficialsEtcPortraitsBrushesMural Author:Ilya Kabakov
“For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED to shut off the computer, push myself back from my desk and escape the studio space to let possible ideas percolate in my gray matter before committing anything to paper or digital imagery as a sketch or a concept.” NeedsIdeasMatterSpaceStepsHellPaperComputerConceptsStudiosDigitalGrayDesksImagerySketchingGray MatterStudio Space Author:Jeff Fisher
“TV depends very much on the pictures that you see on your television, and all the other things that come up on the screen, whether it be GFX, the studio or the pictures of the game.” GamesTelevisionTvsDependsCome UpStudiosScreens Author:Jill Douglas
“I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.” TogetherRocksMusicianAreasStudiosRock Musicians Author:Ken Hensley
“Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.” PeopleLooksSchoolHouseParentHigh SchoolCamerasStudiosUncomfortableBedroomDreamland Author:John Waters
“I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.” PeopleIfsLittlesSaidWholeUseTodayBitsInterestingImpossibleGroupsMinutesExerciseLittle BitMusicianStudiosBrokeSessionRestrictionNameless Author:Brian Eno
“I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsMadeIdeasRealResultsCuttingPossibilityStudiosSignificantCrippled Author:Brian Eno
“The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always put down your ideas or whatever. You use your voice recorder and, you know, take your voice notes down and just preserve all the little jewels and gems when you're in there, putting that song together.” KnowsWantLittlesI CanIdeasUseTogetherSongVoiceRecordsDown AndNotesStudiosPreservesJewelsGemsRecorders Author:Big Boi
“One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.” PeopleMadeProblemPayAttentionRecordsMusicianAssumingStudiosMade ItPay AttentionRemove Author:Moby
“I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantMeanRealFilmAudienceHollywoodIndependentVariousStudiosTrendsReal WorldTruthfulEccentricInterferenceDemographicsIndependent FilmCalculatingPrerogativeHollywood Studios Author:Mike Leigh
“Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.” HumansMadeFilmUsedHuman BeingsInterestingProjectsStudiosUsed To Be Author:Ramin Bahrani
“When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.” IfsWantHoursStudios Author:Paul Oakenfold
“I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.” IdeasRoomsPaintingEatingAimSurpriseStudiosDozenSoupSunflower Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing.” InspirationalWritingArtSelfSeemsSchoolCoursesLiteratureDifficultCommonGoneDangerTaughtIndividualityStudiosProofInkNinetyGeeseBrethrenSuperfluousEliminatingHandwritingCommon ThingsSelf TaughtArt Of Writing Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.” FeelsMeanYoungEnjoyHappenedOne ThingProduceCoupleBandStudiosEaseEmsThings I Love Author:Ace Frehley
“I really love animation as a storytelling medium, whether it's traditional, cel animation, or CG, or stop motion, which is more our studio's area of focus. But I find that the creatives behind any kind of animation are typically very similar, and so regardless of what aesthetic they use to realize their vision, I'm usually pretty into it.” KindUseRealizingBehindsVisionFocusAreasStudiosStorytellingTraditionalMediumsAestheticAnimation Author:Seth Green
“Where possible, if there's something that is highly likely to kill you, the studios won't insure us to do [the stunts]. But where we are insurable, Len likes to make us do that. He likes to see actors' faces and have everybody know that that is them doing it. Yeah, I definitely got some bruises on this one.” IfsKnowsFacesActorsYeahStudiosLikesBruises Author:Kate Beckinsale
“For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and Diana Ross And The Supremes. I also met The Carpenters. I was actually there in the studio when they recorded We've Only Just Begun.” SoulBlackWonderMetsMeetingsStudiosSupremeAdoreHighlightsCarpenterDianaMusic SoulMotown Author:Tony Blackburn
“It's so different going in the studio and singing your own music and you don't really think about making sure that the message of the song or the idea behind the song comes across to people. Because it's in your head, it's in your heart, whatever, but it's... different when you're playing a character and you're singing as the character. There's just a lot more involved in that, I guess.” PeopleThinkingHeartIdeasDifferentCharacterSongBehindsInvolvedMessagesSingingStudios Author:Mandy Moore
“If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.” IfsWould BeShotsStudios Book:James Cameron: Interviews Source: James Cameron: Interviews
“There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.” WorldKindTwoLife IsSourcePhotographyOrdinaryPhotographerStudiosFormerLatterThings In LifeNourishment Author:Ernst Haas
“The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.” GivingWritingWellsPersonsHas BeensIdeasStatesSongSoundExerciseGive MeSatisfactionStudiosSongwritingArrangementsNurtureMasterpieceWriting SongsEnvisioning Author:Brian Wilson
“I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows” KnowsWantInterestLowsRateStudiosBackyardsInterest Rate Author:Paul Taylor
“Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.” StillsMemoriesDarkInfiniteDressesStudiosOccasionsRememberedRemembranceFifthAvenuesFestive Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.” PeopleMeanBusinessInvolvedLuckStudiosCampaignsReleaseAdsComponentsCompetent Author:David Zucker
“Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.” FirstsRunningEnvironmentNormalSeriesStudiosHypnosis Author:Joe Murray
“It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.” HardSeemsFilmLevelsFeetGrewGrew UpStudiosGiantsBlockbuster Author:Chris Evans
“Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.” WantYearsMonthsSixStudiosEightMonths Of The Year Author:Matthew Fox
“Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.” MatterFeelingsRecordsRiskSecurityPromiseMusicianPerfectionFunctionStudiosEquipmentSubjectiveMachineryBlanketUnwilling Author:Jon Landau
“The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say they could go into a studio and make it all up on a three minute cut.” IdeasWantedThreeQualityClearCuttingMinutesRocksStonesOppositesStudiosExemplary Author:Jon Landau
“I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.” PeopleTryingWellsCountryFactsInspirationCitiesMusicianDrawsRootsStudiosAttractionSingersVarietyHatsPullingCowboyFlexibilityNashvilleCountry SingerCowboy HatMusic City Author:John Oates
“I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.” PeopleMightHappensUsedParticularClothesPaintStudiosLandscapeBeachPubs Author:Peter Wright
“About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.” WantHappensPercentStudiosAccidentsKeyboards Author:Scott Walker
“To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.” LittlesMadeFilmFunKnownPeriodsRelationStudiosCinemaThings To DoClassicItalianWorthwhileLike SomethingEvokeDoing YouFun Things Author:Wim Wenders