“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.” IfsKnowsYearsDoeStillsHelpingArtistStuffLevelsKnow HowRecordsFieldsStudiosSoftwareMicrophonesLaptopsPlaying FieldsYears Of Experience Author:Roger McGuinn
“In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.” YearsDoneGuyStuffMusicianStudiosSession Author:David Sanborn
“I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.” WayTryingPlaySongStuffImpactStudiosContinuingNew WaysPositive Impact Author:Stone Gossard
“I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.” UsedHouseStuffMy OwnRecordsHolyBuiltTrackStudiosIdenticalZeppelinsAbbeyAbbey Road Author:Lukas Haas
“What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.” WorldLooksDoeReasonEnoughProblemStuffSeriesOneselfStudiosDeeperDeeper Meaning Author:Anish Kapoor
“I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I don't really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.” StuffDealsWatchesMy FamilyEdgesAlbumsStudiosScalesMusic LoveI Love Music Author:Kate Bush
“When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.” WritingPlayBigsStuffSoundAbilityRocksGuitarStudiosHeavyPostsLoudAggressivePunk Author:Tom DeLonge
“In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.” InspirationStuffTypeEatingStudiosLionsNational GeographicGazelles Author:Big Sean
“I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.” KnowsDoneShowsStuffComedyStudiosConvincePitchingPuppetsPuppet Shows Author:Garry Shandling
“I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.” PeopleWritingWantedSongHouseNamesStuffMy OwnFiveHappenedStreetsSixIntentionAlbumsStudiosReleaseFighterWriting SongsDemosFoo Fighters Author:Dave Grohl
“For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.” KnowsWritingStuffSellsStudiosLots Of Money Author:Robert Ben Garant
“Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.” PeopleKnowsNeedsPersonsStuffStudiosMessMinefields Author:Thomas Lennon
“That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.” WorldRealWould BeAbleJobsStuffPressesStudiosReal LifeShipsNavyGreat JobRecording Studio Author:DJ Qualls
“Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.” FeelsLooksHas BeensSometimesShowsRememberMotherThreeNamesStuffBornTalkingAudienceGenerationsMomGoes OnRaisedFolksAlbumsStudiosMy MomSingersPerformingOfficialsGreyBrooksProfessionalismDebutHolliesDiscsTweensExpletivesDuos Author:Skylar Grey
“I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio [after] shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"” ThinkingKnowsTryingMomentsHomeCertainThreeNextStuffFourWeekBuildingStudiosShootingNext DayComing BackRehearsal Author:Anthony Heald
“We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.” IfsEnoughStuffFailingStudiosPushingGood EnoughGoing To WorkNot Good EnoughAfraid To Fail Author:Jonathan Ive
“The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw.” PeopleSometimesHardShowsRunningFilmStuffSawsHugeTheaterOriginalsCompetitionStudiosVersionsFilmmakerReportsEarning Author:Tom Hanks
“Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.” PeopleIfsWantGivingTryingWellsPersonsIdeasHardEnoughShowsHappensNextWinningStuffCan DoSleepTvsGiving UpNormalResourcesTablesStudiosRingsWheelsPoolGigsCrushedBrassBlockbusterEmmysJust Give Up Author:Joss Whedon
“I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.” KnowsWritingFirstsStuffMy OwnInstrumentsStudiosGearsMaking UpDemosAccordions Author:Hunter Hayes
“The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."” ThinkingFirstsMightStuffLosesFiveCuttingMinutesDirectorsGainsStudiosReleaseFive MinutesSuggesting Author:Barry Sonnenfeld
“I remember on a Friday afternoon getting a phone call from Grant Simmons saying, "Mike," we got to be pretty good friends; "Mike, the Sheriff is closing us down on Monday. If you'd like to drive into the studio tomorrow morning, you can have anything you want." So rather than go in and take home piles and piles of cels of Spider-Man what did I take home? Two pages of original art that got sent out to the west coast. Now of course if I'd have taken all the rest of that stuff home I could probably have retired a lot earlier.” IfsMenWantArtTwoHomeRememberCoursesStuffMorningTakenTomorrowPagesOriginalsWestPhonesStudiosGrantsAfternoonGood FriendCoastMondayFridaySpidersMikeRetiredClosingPhone CallsSpider ManWest CoastSheriffsTomorrow MorningOriginal ArtFriday Afternoon Author:Mike Royer
“I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to write anywhere but right there in the studio on the spot. So when you hear my stuff, know that I wrote it in the studio.” KnowsWritingUsedCausesStuffStudiosSpotsNotebook Author:Nas
“If you haven't got a gun, you can't shoot anyone. We need to look at how these guns are getting into our communities. It's about replacing the negativity with good stuff. Give kids music studios in the community they can use for free and see how they learn to work together. Football and music unify kids.” IfsNeedsGivingLooksUseKidsTogetherStuffCommunityHavensFootballGunStudiosWorking TogetherNegativityOur Community Author:Ashley Walters
“The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.” KnowsWayKindUsedStuffFiguresToolsStudiosHorribleUsed To BeExecuting Author:Mike Patton