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“The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.”

Thinking I Can Musician Sticks Studios Stuck

Author:Mark E. Smith

“When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.”

Emotion Studios

Author:Sade Adu

“After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.”

World War Whole Wanted Film Actors Lost Cities Streets Industry Cameras Studios Destroyed Equipment No Money

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.”

Years Mother My Own Years Ago Machines Studios Printing Karaoke

Author:Obie Trice

“Perhaps the more "operatic" video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece, I was locked into an idea, and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.”

Way Mind Long Ideas Moving Social Pieces Committed Studios Reactions Video Isolated Locked Sculpture Flamboyant

Author:Oliver Herring

“Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.”

Ifs Thinking Film Assuming Studios Nervous Executives Usual Masterpiece

Author:Maurice Jarre

“And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.”

Ifs Want Pay Studios Credit

Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.”

People Thinking Artist Powerful Design Studios Convinced Aesthetic Decoration

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”

World War Saws Painting Chaos Studios Paris War Of The Worlds Officers Shocked Second World War Guernica

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“The only bad studio is the unused one.”

Studios

Author:Robert Genn

“I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.”

Knows Looks Bigs Shots Let Me Studios Fats Greek Attractive Executives Wedding Reviewers

Author:Nia Vardalos

“I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.”

Wells Home Bits Studios Touring

Author:John Deacon

“All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.”

Thinking World Should Mind Wells May States Artist Community Creativity Tradition Scientist Luck Studios Faculty Stand Alone Money Power Power Politics

Book:Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

Source: Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

“The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.”

Want Bigger Remains Studios Core Scope Descending Movie Business

Author:Joel Silver

“Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.”

Would Be Given Directors Studios Producers Instruction Worth Living

Author:Carter Burwell

“Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.”

Thinking Years Bigs Three Rooms Millions Expression Cost Hollywood Errors Studios Free Expression Hollywood Studios

Author:Robbie Coltraine

“Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.”

Way Wells Looks Ends Sometimes Running Space Animal Streets Habit Quiet Originals Busy Studios Shy Overwhelming Fear Of Failure Rendering Terminal Original Thought

Author:Alain de Botton

“I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.”

Ideas Guy Come Up Studios Enjoyed

Author:Billy Bragg

“Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.”

Knows Trying Kind Different Painting Studios Different Things Take Your Time

Author:Rosanne Cash

“Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.”

Today Song Cutting Studios Tempting

Author:Huey Lewis

“I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.”

Dies Next Studios Slips Muse Next Time Keel

Author:Kristin Hersh

“I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.”

Men Firsts Study Streets England Studios Finished London One Man Exhibits Ambassadors

Author:Felix de Weldon

“When I needed an e-book formatted fast and formatted perfectly, Polgarus Studio came through for me. My expectations were exceeded. It's a relief knowing I can count on a hand-formatted e-book that will work on every device. Highly recommended!”

I Can Book Hands Knowing Needed Expectations Studios Relief Devices

Author:Hugh Howey

“Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.”

Needs Studios Get Away Batteries

Author:Norman Rockwell

“"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.”

Source: The Crystal Bucket

“After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.”

Looks Long Night Hours Studios Debate Bob Dylan Nashville Sushi Pms Woodland Woodland Creatures

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had.”

People Giving Made Play Enjoy Ready Musician Prepared Studios Session Great Music Effortless Great Musician

Author:Stanley Clarke

“I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.”

Wells Two Pay Studios Landscape Designer Plus Architect Engineers Lighting Assistants Consultants

Author:Janet Echelman

“There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently”

Thinking Use Fall Sound Quality Special Effects Fashion Studios Trends Special Effects Sound Quality

Author:Steve Albini

“Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food”

Found Enjoy Rocks Behavior Benefits Musician Cooking Studios Cooks Excellent Rock Music Fresh Food Rock Musicians

Author:Steve Albini

“Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write short stories, novels, and poetry, do revisions, and so on. You have the basic tool to fulfill your writing dreams. But beware. This type of writing will uncover other dreams you have, too-going to Tibet, being the first woman president of the United States, building a solar studio in New Mexico-and they will be in black and white. It will be harder to avoid them.”

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.”

Light Film Used Actors Five Four Scene Shots Shadow Direct Method Following Studios Cameraman

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

“Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.”

Way Television Rounds Studios My Way

Author:Steven Moffat

“I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.”

Trying Watches Treats Studios Something New

Author:Brian McKnight

“I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.”

Watches Car Clean Studios Tea Cleaning

Author:Sheena Easton

“Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.”

Writing Studios Therapy

Author:Justin Timberlake

“We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m.”

Firsts Shows Would Be Five Week Goes On Shots Starting Studios Be Good Tape Continuing Location Hawaii

Author:Juliet Mills

“It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.”

Ifs Play Dream Would Be Studios If I Could Solo Dreams Come True

Author:Michael Schenker

“We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.”

Ifs Made Terrible Judgment Critics Studios Reviews

Author:Ismail Merchant

“Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.”

Want Trying Young Courses Journey Goes On Studios Executives Bugs Heroines

Author:Joe Dante

“I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.”

Thinking Challenges Levels Player Jazz Excellence Incredibles Come Up Studios

Author:Rita Coolidge

“The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.”

Light Social Couple Studios Managers Smoking Marijuana Harper

Author:Beth Orton

“What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.”

Facts Film Style Productions Studios

Author:Wim Wenders

“Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.”

Should Art Language Theory Studios Smell Painter Household Sculptors Good Art

Book:Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.”

Process Creative Nice Sitting Studios Separation Massive Creative Process Crew Really Nice Trailers

Author:Neve Campbell

“The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.”

Way Art Rooms Masters Becoming Office Studios Dreamer Factories Extensions Kindergarten Sandbox

Author:Robert Genn

“Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.”

Anger Studios Finished Frustration Evident Anger And Frustration Anger Frustration

Author:Bruce Nauman

“OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.”

Found Concern Safety Studios Wrestling

Author:Jerry Lawler

“Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.”

Ifs Way Giving Running Film Moving Issues Hot Studios Faster Exploitation Topics Relevance Bucks Hot Topic

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.”

Littles Running Stars Half Five Comedy One Thing Feet Streets New York Musical Studios Eight Tall

Author:Esther Williams

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