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Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument. -- Jerry Harrison
I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes. -- James Iha
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back. -- Abbie Cornish
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music. -- Grace Slick
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer. -- T Bone Burnett
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
My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it. -- Dimebag Darrell
You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8. -- Anne Hathaway
One of my earliest memories is being inside the recording studio and I see the shadow of a figure that looks an awful lot like Walt Disney. Then the door opened and Mr. Disney walked in and said, 'Hi Clint.' I won't ever forget that. -- Clint Howard
Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep. -- Michael Jackson
I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers. -- Tommy Lee
Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio. -- Judy Greer
I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something. -- Brian Setzer
I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun. -- Wooden Wand
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that. -- John Tesh
When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel. -- Thomas Dolby
Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well. -- Diego Boneta
I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out. -- Jack Black
The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences. -- Andrew S. Gilbert
Two weeks after having Bandit I was in a recording studio. I hadnt yet really fully understood what being a dad was and, man, I was exhausted. But she is 17 months now. Shes running, shes been running for a long time. Shes inspired me a great deal for the record. She even goes Wow Daddy! when I play to her. -- Gerard Way
When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days. -- John Lennon
I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14. -- Booker T. Jones
We take fabulousness for granted sometimes. We forget what hard work it is. Indeed, when you consider the grueling hours your average celebrity puts in on the movie set and in the recording studio, when you think of them returning to their mansions so dead tired their drivers have to help them out of the car, well, it just makes you want to cry.. -- Leonard Pitts
I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands. -- Steve Brown
It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio. -- Jim Messina
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills. -- Mac DeMarco
I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office. -- Huey Lewis
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. -- Moby
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. -- Moby
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
Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently. -- Megan Hilty
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
T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. -- Betty Buckley
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio. -- Bruce Springsteen
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. -- Nicole Scherzinger
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. -- DJ Qualls
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece. -- Bat for Lashes
I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with. -- Sebastian Bach
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
Unlike other voice-over situations which are done in a recording studio, Roger Rabbit was live action and animation combined, and there was a time factor, so my voice was recorded live on the set. So I'm on the set rehearsing and recording my voice as a performance with the other actors, and they're all wearing costumes, and it made sense to me. -- Charles Fleischer
I think of all the things that I've gotten to do, all the wonderful people that I've played with, being in the recording studio with Phil Spector tops them all. And of course, now he is in prison. I hope to visit him, I still consider him a friend, and what can you say? A terrible way for a guy like that to be remembered. -- Paul Shaffer
I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together. -- Pat Travers
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube. -- Al Yankovic
I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio. -- Aurora Aksnes
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much. -- Stephen Malkmus
Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. -- Warren Zevon
I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things. -- Aretha Franklin
I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool. -- Jonathan Meiburg
I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD. -- Roger McGuinn
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine. -- Pete Townshend
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
I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing. -- Adam Young
I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process. -- Corbin Bleu
Bands will always need studios. The more people there are recording at home, the more people there will be who are going to need a studio. -- John Vanderslice
One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio. -- Johnny Cash
I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating. -- Max Tundra
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You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion. -- Tony Visconti
Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer. -- Jon Secada
I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance. -- Chuck Mangione
We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit. -- Nikki Sixx
Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me. -- John Petrucci
I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio -- Michael Dumontier

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