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“What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.”

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Author:John Mayer

“When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.”

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Author:Matthew McConaughey

“I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.”

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Author:Christopher Meloni

“I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.”

Inspirational Looks Photography Dance Studios Flats

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.”

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Author:Nicki Minaj

“I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other.”

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Author:Kylie Minogue

“The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.”

Thinking Way Happens Music Is Studios Playing Music

Author:Moby

“My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.”

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Author:Moby

“Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.”

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Author:Moby

“It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.”

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Author:Moby

“Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.”

Trying Stars Inspiring Studios

Book:Marilyn Monroe in her own words

Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words

“If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.”

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Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.”

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Author:Mandy Moore

“Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.”

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Author:Alanis Morissette

“And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.”

Ifs Would Be Able Morning Studios Preference

Author:Alanis Morissette

“With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.”

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Author:Alanis Morissette

“I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.”

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Author:Bill Murray

“Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.”

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Author:Nas

“You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.”

Writing Studios Spots

Author:Beck

“Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.”

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Author:Beck

“The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.”

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Author:Chris Ofili

“The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“Obviously I don't have a stylist for everyday stuff, but for a premiere or something usually the studio will hire someone.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.”

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Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.”

People Realizing Studios Shy

Author:Jane Pauley

“A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.”

Laughing Comedy Tired Studios Pitfalls

Author:Alexander Payne

“The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.”

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Author:Sean Penn

“The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.”

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Author:Joe Perry

“I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.”

People Knows Audience Studios

Author:Tyler Perry

“It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.”

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Author:Tyler Perry

“It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.”

Feelings Studios

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.”

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Author:John Belushi

“I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.”

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Author:Tony Bennett

“I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.”

Ifs Writing My Own Studios

Author:Kid Rock

“The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.”

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Author:Robert Rodriguez

“During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.”

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Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“'Flying Down to Rio' established RKO as a leader in musical film production throughout the 1930s. The film helped to rescue the studio from its financial straits and it gave a real boost to my movie career.”

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Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of 'Flying Down to Rio' and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential.”

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Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.”

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Author:Mickey Rourke

“Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.”

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Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.”

Thinking My Friends Studios Contemporary Filmmaker Categories

Author:Martin Scorsese

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