“I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.” WholeStudiosPianoPerformersSessionForte Author:Allen Toussaint
“When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.” PeopleGivingTryingPleaseStudiosFeedback Author:Allen Toussaint
“In the 80s, if you wanted to make electronic music, it was a much tougher and more expensive process. For many people it would involve either spending loads of money on gear or else cutting demos in a proper studio. But I had this Casio keyboard and tape recorder and used to do stuff in my bedroom - I'd listen to Mantronix and all that. That was what I had so that's what I used.” PeopleIfsWantedUsedStuffProcessCuttingStudiosSpendingExpensiveTapeLoadBedroom80sGearsKeyboardsElectronic MusicRecordersDemos Author:Ekoplekz
“I just know that he's Robbie Williams - he's massive, that's all I know! He nailed it. Working in the studio with him was cool. I got there at about six in the afternoon and then stayed until six in the morning. We only worked for like two hours, the rest of the time we were just chilling out the back. The way Robbie handles everything... he's a star, but there were never any pretensions, no ego. He put effort in.” KnowsWayTwoStarsHoursEffortMorningEgoSixStudiosHandleMassiveAfternoonChillPretensionChilling Out Author:Dizzee Rascal
“I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different groups - not millions of dollars per group, but, you know, a few thousand. Throw them in the studio, and if five of those groups came out with a hit record it would be money well spent.” IfsKnowsWellsKindLittlesDifferentWould BeBitsMillionsRecordsFiveGroupsThousandLittle BitHundredMethodDollarsStudiosSeventiesMoney Well Spent Author:Tony Visconti
“You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.” ShouldHappensSoundOpinionTechnologyStudios Author:Tony Visconti
“European films had art. And it was easy to make a European film. They didn't come from the studio system, they weren't shot in sound studios, and that's a good thing, because in the studio system those movies would never have had a chance. And since we were coming from Europe, it was natural for us to use that simple style. Small budgets, less equipment, that was just how it was.” ArtUseFilmEasySoundNaturalChanceSimpleStyleShotsEuropeGood ThingsStudiosBudgetsEquipmentSimple Style Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no heart; there's no soul. Movies used to be about people. It's as though we don't tell stories any more. The studios have to make money, and if you want to make $20 million, you have to spend $200 million.” PeopleIfsWantHeartSoulStoriesUsedWalksMillionsSpecialEffectsColdTheaterStudiosUsed To BeMaking MoneyLeaving MeExplosionsSpecial Effects Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and it's not a model that can necessarily be sustained. Now, if they go back to making movies about people ... well, I hope they do that.” PeopleIfsWellsMillionsTypeModelsStudiosFamiliar Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I don't care what studio I'm in, I don't care what producers is producing it and I don't care what song it is because they taught me those things I feel so protected wherever I go as far as music.” FeelsCareSongTaughtStudiosDon't CareProducersI Don't CareProtected Author:Ben E. King
“I would never go to a studio. I need my space, you know what I mean? I need to be able to chain smoke and pace about, cry and like... spit. Just make noise, make a huge mess. I also feel like if I was concerned for the cost of the studio - like, 'this is costing 40 dollars an hour' - I wouldn't be able to work.” IfsKnowsNeedsFeelsMeanAbleHoursSpaceCryHugeCostConcernedDollarsStudiosNoiseChainsMessSmokePaceSpitMy Space Author:Grimes
“It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.” DifferentRecordsMarketingStudiosDifferent Things Author:Ben E. King
“Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.” ActorsStudiosWoody Author:Elaine Stritch
“The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.” PeopleIdeasJoyStudios Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.” IfsFeelsWellsDifferentMightInterestingColorCreaturesStudiosHolograms Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a certain skill set; then being in the studio, and being curled up in the fetal position under the piano, that requires another skill set.” PeopleThinkingCertainStageFrontsPositionSkillsStudiosPianoInvigoratingAmazing Experiences Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“There are times when you need to step back and realize that movie studios today are not necessarily the same things that they were many years ago. Many movie studios are international conglomerates now. They own everything from theme parks to toy companies to T-shirt companies to video companies. There's a lot of different wheels to be greased.” NeedsYearsDifferentTodayRealizingCompanyStepsYears AgoInternationalStudiosVideoShirtsParksThemeWheelsToysT ShirtTheme Parks Author:Michael Uslan
“One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.” NeedsMadeStatesFilmCompanySituationTelevisionDramaAspectTheaterCurrentsStudiosCinemaJapanExposedExtensionsAdaptationNeed A ChangeBroadcastingGood FilmsAnimeTelevision Drama Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“I like to go into the studio and let things happen. I like to just let the session take on. I don't want to have to clock in at nine and end at eight. That's just not me, that's not how my creativity flows.” WantEndsHappensCreativityFlowStudiosEightThings HappenNineClockSession Author:Brooke Valentine
“That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.” NiceMagicStudios Author:Stephen Malkmus
“[As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.” Would BeNiceRadioStudiosPantsBeing NiceLeatherLeather Pants Author:Stephen Malkmus
“Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.” StudiosEngineers Author:Stephen Malkmus
“Bands will always need studios. The more people there are recording at home, the more people there will be who are going to need a studio.” PeopleNeedsHomeBandStudios Author:John Vanderslice
“As a studio, you have to have a niche. You have to provide a service and there has to be a reason for your being around.” ReasonStudiosNiche Author:John Vanderslice
“I had this perfect situation where my studio was a three-minute walk away, and every day I would go to the studio. If I had an idea, I could work on it at the highest level possible.” IfsIdeasThreeWalksPerfectLevelsSituationMinutesHighestStudios Author:St. Lucia
“Sitting in a studio with Oli [Sykes], or going back and forth with Adam [Young] on his tracks, it's so much more fun than something really structured and put together.” TogetherYoungFunSittingTrackStudiosAdamBack And Forth Author:Lights
“The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.” IndividualProcessStudiosDecadesScalesFilmmaking Author:Matthew Specktor
“The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.” FeelsEndsRunningFilmRecordsStudiosStuckFeaturesNeedlesGroove Author:Matthew Specktor
“People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.” PeopleThinkingKindEconomicModelsStudiosCollapseClosingEconomic Models Author:Matthew Specktor
“I remember coming in to the studio and meeting Barry Manilow . I was kind of star-struck. He said, "I want to play you this song." We get to the end of the song and I hear him actually sing my name as part of the lyric. I had to pick my jaw up from the floor!” WantKindSaidEndsPlayRememberSongNamesStarsPicksMeetingsStudios Author:Dave Koz
“I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.” IfsKnowsGivingFirstsLooksNextGoneMinutesHavensChangedGiving UpFirst TimeStudiosPianoThrill Author:Elton John
“The recording process was basically me meeting with different writers, going into their studio, starting a song and just hanging out and chatting and getting to know how they work. Everybody has a different writing process so there was a lot of getting to know people, which can be fun and stressful at the same time.” PeopleKnowsWritingDifferentSongFunProcessKnow HowMeetingsStartingStudiosHanging OutWriting ProcessStressfulChatting Author:Bridgit Mendler
“I'm not very much an open book, I do really express myself only through my music and when I'm in that safe environment and I don't have to let anything go out of the studios that I don't want to go out.” WantBookEnvironmentSafeStudiosOpen BookAnything GoesSafe Environment Author:Ella Henderson
“I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.” KindDifferentFilmNextStyleLuckyDirectorsSatisfactionStudiosGenreLogicalExposedDifferent Kinds Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.” ThinkingIndependentStudiosCinemaBetter Now Author:Mark Ruffalo
“It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.” WorldWritingCareersPiecesMediaTvsStudiosGood TimesGood LifeHaving A Good TimeParasitesInconsequentialLeeches Author:Boris Johnson
“It was also great shooting in London at Pinewood Studios because of all its history. So many of the 007 movies were filmed there, as well as classics by everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Jack Nicholson to Martin Scorcese. It's like working on hallowed ground. So, I felt a responsibility to make sure I did as good a job as I possibly could.” WellsJobsFeltResponsibilityStudiosLondonShootingNicholsonHallowed Ground007 Author:Naomie Harris
“A lot of producers always say "what direction are you going in?" and I don't know. I'm just doing music. Right now it's going well. It's a little slow, but it's expected because I haven't been in the studio for a minute.” KnowsWellsLittlesMinutesHavensRight NowStudiosExpectedProducers Author:Ginuwine
“Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.” BigsImagineHollywoodProfitStudios Author:Adam McKay
“I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.” StudiosChineseScholarDictionaryLincoln Center Author:Sam Hamill
“A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.” GovernmentFilmFacesStudiosCanadaYour Face Author:Kristen Hager
“I don't spend that much time in the studio. When I first started doing music, I was in the studio every day just trying to build my portfolio. But now, even though I haven't totally mastered my craft, I'm at a pretty high level.” TryingFirstsLevelsHavensStudiosCraftsHigh LevelPortfolios Author:Fetty Wap
“Can't nobody do what Fetty Wap does. So when I go to the studio, it may be four to five hours max, probably three days out the week. I used to go to the studio for 10 to 15 hours, and I would do five to 10 songs. Now I go for four to five hours and I do, like, 15 to 20 songs. I'm an ad lib guy. Most people know me for my ad libs.” PeopleKnowsMayDoeUsedGuySongThreeHoursFiveFourWeekStudiosAdsKnow MeMax Author:Fetty Wap
“I would just be vibing with whatever I liked the most. And then there were a couple songs that I started on my own. I would have a melody or an idea and I would take it to the studio to go through it.” IdeasSongMy OwnCoupleStudiosMelody Author:Jazmine Sullivan
“Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.” ActingCitiesCareersStudiosBounceGroove Author:LeToya Luckett
“I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.” FeltProcessStudiosLearning ProcessRecording Studio Author:Corbin Bleu
“If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.” IfsKindMightRecordsWonderfulStrangeElementsStudiosLondonRecallsKentuckyPersonal History Author:Will Oldham
“Well, I've been on stage my whole life. Also, when you're doing music videos, a lot of people don't understand. They think you just go up there, do the song, and they film the video. You do it like a jillion times before that though. Same thing in the studio.” PeopleThinkingWellsWholeFilmSongStageStudiosWhole LifeVideo Author:Glenn Danzig
“If you didn't get it right and then you have to release a director's cut to undo what the studio made you release, I don't know, either it's some marketing thing for them to get more money or the director didn't do his job.” IfsKnowsMadeJobsCuttingDirectorsMarketingStudiosReleaseMore Money Author:Neill Blomkamp
“All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or at least a great majority of them - live in fear because we're all insecure, we all want that next job, we all want to be loved, and we don't want to piss off some studio chief who won't hire us for the next movie.” WantJobsNextActorsLeftDirectorsMajorityStudiosChiefsCorporationsInsecureMultinationalsMultinational Corporations Author:Paul Haggis