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“EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and in the studio, has completely changed the game. It's almost impossible to explain how amazing this innovation is. Pure magic!”

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Author:Ben Weinman

“I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.”

Has Beens Different Wanted School Sound Drama University Studios Hearing Loud Different Life

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.”

Men Bottom Studios Totems

Author:David Lindsay-Abaire

“You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.”

Thinking Mean Littles Home Film Independent Studios Accountants Independent Film Providers Little Money

Author:Vera Farmiga

“California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.”

Way Wells Philosophy Character Film Tvs Huge Civilization Tradition Studios Posts California Factories Rooted Automobile Aircraft Charlatans Philosophy And Religion Cosmopolitanism

Author:J. B. Priestley

“All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.”

Art Art Is Areas Studios Torture Solitary

Author:Alexander Liberman

“If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.”

Ifs Film Actors Deals Steps Amount Studios Agents

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.”

Want Wells Ideas Kids Film Exciting Embrace Studios Filmmaker

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.”

Years Said Next Years Ago Court Studios Producers California Next Day Session Springsteen

Author:Ronnie Spector

“If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].”

Ifs Men Want Giving Give Me Studios Suits Metals X Men Robert Downey

Author:Bryan Singer

“The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.”

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“Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.”

People Wells Stills School Nice Willing Conversation Studios Closest Closest Friends Good Conversation

Author:Tom Felton

“It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.”

Band Studios Horrible Producers Insult Engineers Offended Session

Author:Steve Albini

“On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.”

Eye Musician Studios Zombie

Author:John Fogerty

“Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko... all believed in the social role of art... Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art with engineering; music with painting; poetry with design; fine art with propaganda; photographs with typography; diagrams with action; the studio with the street.”

Art Action Social Roles Doors Streets Design Painting Fine Activity Photograph Studios Propaganda Engineering Connecting Fine Arts Typography Diagrams Social Roles Kandinsky

Author:John Berger

“I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.”

Thinking Running Today Wanted Cities Citizens Studios Comedian Entering Second City

Author:Judd Apatow

“Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.”

Long Stills Used Hours Records Studios Used To Be Back In The Day

Author:Roy Ayers

“Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince clients of an artist’s worth just by mentioning the mouthwatering response readymade. Most Art Historians aren’t interested in what artists are making in Bushwick studios, most of whom rarely wake up with Duchamp on the brain.”

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Author:Paddy Johnson

“There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.”

Art Artist Imagination Discipline Studios Scrap Discarded

Author:Robert Breault

“I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you.”

People World Heart Doe Earth Capitalism Negative Sake Studios Music Business Good Heart Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.”

Actors Changed Studios

Author:Sally Field

“I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.”

Film Records Shapes Instruments Studios Versions Editing Edits

Author:Ken Burns

“I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.”

Firsts Different Real Joy Musician First Time Studios Real Joy

Author:Bob Seger

“It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.”

Years Stories Wanted Artist House Individual Clear Building Built Forgotten Studios Admire Remembered Paris Monument Belle Financiers Courtesans

Author:Julian Barnes

“Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.”

Home Stage Studios Presentation Demos

Author:Warren Zevon

“I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.”

Writing Chance Studios Performing

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.”

Lasts Wind Hollywood Blow Studios Sand Egypt Pyramids Props Crumbling

Author:David O. Selznick

“I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.”

Years Art School Actors Acting Teacher High School Studios Performing Auditions Performing Arts

Author:Ellen Barkin

“I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!”

Mean Age Majors Studios Ridiculous Awards Contracts Academy Academy Awards

Author:Angela Lansbury

“I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.”

Night Literature Deals Acting Clear Easier Late Sitting Sake Studios Awful One Night Epiphany

Author:Lucy Lawless

“I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Song Bits Taken Studios Vocal Matured

Author:Peter Gabriel

“The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.”

Problem Bigs Film Fun Exciting Studios Budgets

Author:David Cronenberg

“It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.”

Doe Stuff Records Studios

Author:Vince Gill

“The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.”

Scene Studios Ridiculous California

Author:Paul Kantner

“In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.”

Firsts Film Language Thirds Studios Expected Generic

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.”

People Studios Recording Studio Remix

Author:James Iha

“I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.”

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Author:Carla Gugino

“I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.”

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Author:Grace Jones

“I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.”

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Author:Eve Arnold

“I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.”

Studios Violent Broke Knives Locked Bathroom

Author:Paget Brewster

“I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.”

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Author:Ross Bleckner

“I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.”

Littles Done Bigs Film Studios

Author:Brenda Blethyn

“I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.”

Wells I Can Hard Use Home My Own Records Studios Versions Recording Studio

Author:Clint Black

“Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.”

Studios

Author:Derek Bailey

“Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.”

Film Studios Enormous Clams

Author:Don Bluth

“The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.”

Artist Blood Studios Smell Sharks

Author:Don Bluth

“I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.”

Looks Stories Walking Studios Upset Amazed Ugliness

Author:Gerard Butler

“I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.”

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Author:Jeffrey Bewkes

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