Studio Quotes

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

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

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

I love the magic of the studio.

I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

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

I love being in the studio.

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

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

I write in the studio.

I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.

There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.

On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

Some people are denizens of the studio. I'm more of a denizen of the live appearance. I love the live thing.

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.

I have a studio at home, and do 3 hours a day that way.

I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.

It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.

I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

I love to go into the studio on days when I'm not even doing anything. It's like my senior club. Some people go to senior centers, well I go to my senior center.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

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

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

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.

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

The studio should not have released this film.

We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

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.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

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

When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.

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.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.