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Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body. -- Alex Ebert
Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument. -- Jerry Harrison
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. -- David Boies
Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool. -- Bootsy Collins
Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered, -- Howe Gelb
Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. -- Warren Zevon
Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound. -- Doseone
I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know. -- J Mascis
Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people. -- Emmett Shear
I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in. -- Judd Nelson
I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in -- Judd Nelson
Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio. -- Frank Stallone
Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me. -- Janet Jackson
I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then. -- Matt Corby
Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods. -- Eric Burdon
Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform. -- Dan Deacon
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento. -- Susan Minot
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it. -- Dorothy Day
Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song. -- Mpho Koaho
New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it. -- Jon Bon Jovi
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp. -- Jeff Beck
I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work. -- Damon Albarn
I've never been ambitious about recording. -- Harry Dean Stanton
I see no reason for recording the obvious. -- Edward Weston
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be. -- Dave Grohl
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. -- Art Buchwald
My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. -- Steven Wright
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say. -- Richard M. Nixon
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. -- Moby
In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. -- Samuel Ullman
The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in. -- Benny Green
Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me. -- Dave Lombardo
The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend. -- Robin Williams
If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound. -- Tom Waits
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. -- Billy Collins
Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone. -- Robin Williams
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day. -- Taryn Manning
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect. -- Steven Pinker
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. -- Tom Waits
I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there. -- Ed Sheeran
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know? -- Gotye
Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore. -- Donny Osmond
I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom. -- Corey Taylor
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that. -- Brian Eno
Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music. -- Tyga
I love recording music. -- J. J. Abrams
I've never been ambitious about recording -- Harry Dean Stanton
I love my music and recording people. -- Edwyn Collins
When we're recording, I always dress up. -- Britt Daniel
Every junkie, he thought, is a recording. -- Philip K. Dick
I'm a little bit scared of re-recording. -- Chaz Bundick
The idea that recording itself is an instrument. -- Michael Snow
The music publishing I own is fabulous recording. -- Paul McCartney
If your life's worth living, it's worth recording. -- Tony Robbins
I have been recording for five decades now. -- Chuck Mangione
I'm still amazed by the process of recording. -- Graham Coxon
No, I don't like recording. It's a bore. -- Buddy Rich
A life worth living is a life worth recording. -- Jim Rohn
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. -- M. Ward
If life is worth living then it's worth recording. -- Shay Carl
I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food. -- Kelis
I became fascinated with recording in an open room. -- Daniel Lanois
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging. -- Quincy Jones
Little things can make such a big difference during recording. -- Matt Cameron
I just stroll in right before the recording goes on. -- Humphrey Lyttelton
I get very deep into the writing and recording process. -- Natasha Bedingfield
I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs. -- Joanna Newsom
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second. -- Erykah Badu
I did my first recording. It was called The Champ. -- Jimmy Smith
A lot of that worked itself out in the recording. -- David Byrne
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. -- Sebastian Smee
Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR. -- Don Meyer
My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments. -- Matt Cameron
My history is really playing live - not writing or recording. -- Squarepusher
My history is really playing live - not writing or recording. -- Squarepusher
Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. -- Willie Nelson
Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes. -- Tony Randall
I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes. -- James Iha
Hell, Justin and I even talking about recording a blues song sometime. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands. -- Steve Brown
The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs. -- Bob Dylan
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. -- Tony Visconti
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. -- Christopher Isherwood
Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig. -- Max Tundra
I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones. -- Peter Thiel
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. -- David Byrne
I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville. -- Marc Edwards
I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go. -- James Mercer
I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
I couldn't imagine recording a track and not being able to perform it. -- Wretch 32
I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music. -- McCoy Tyner
When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting. -- Jennifer Hudson
I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act. -- Stan Lee
The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field -- Gerry Mulligan
I'm thinking about recording everything to tape like it's 1991 and seeing how that sounds. -- Chuck Inglish
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. -- Placido Domingo
The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field. -- Gerry Mulligan
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. -- Sallust
I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson. -- Wanda Jackson
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. -- Jeanette Winterson
I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly. -- Neal Schon
When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble. -- Judy Greer
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back. -- Abbie Cornish
I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour. -- Skylar Laine
Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract. -- Tommy Shaw
I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night. -- Big Boi
I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop. -- Holly Johnson
All I ever wanted was to make scrilla / Have a recording session with J Dilla. -- Rick Ross
I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now. -- Skitch Henderson
It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting. -- Danielle Dax
No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording. -- Dwight Yoakam
I've been recording myself since grade 10. Back then, it was just really crappy rock stuff. -- Ryan Hemsworth
I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording. -- Timbaland
People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another. -- Asif Kapadia
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording. -- Margaret Deland
Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them. -- Jan Hammer
I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things. -- Johnette Napolitano

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