Recording Quotes

1. "I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record."
Author: Adrian Belew

2. "The room is the most important thing about recording."
Author: Adrian Smith

3. "By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube."
Author: Al Yankovic

4. "Imagine a skilled botanist accompanied by someone like myself who is largely ignorant of botany taking part in a field trip into the Australian bush, with the objective of collecting observable facts about the native flora. It is undoubtedly the case that the botanist will be capable of collecting facts that are far more numerous and discerning than those I am able to observe and formulate, and the reason is clear. The botanist has a more elaborate conceptual scheme to exploit than myself, and that is because he or she knows more botany than I do. A knowledge of botany is a prerequisite for the formulation of the observation statements that might constitute its factual basis. Thus, the recording of observable facts requires more than the reception of the stimuli, in the form of light rays, that impinge on the eye. It requires the knowledge of the appropriate conceptual scheme and how to apply it."
Author: Alan F. Chalmers

5. "Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love the idea of Bigfoot. I want him to be out there somewhere."
Author: Allen Covert

6. "Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did."
Author: Andrew O'Hagan

7. "His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People—particularly older ones—still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios—though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies."
Author: Arthur C. Clarke

8. "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."
Author: Billy Collins

9. "I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast."
Author: Bob Seger

10. "When we're recording, I always dress up."
Author: Britt Daniel

11. "I have been recording for five decades now."
Author: Chuck Mangione

12. "People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be."
Author: Dave Grohl

13. "The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful."
Author: David Boies

14. "Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises."
Author: David Ogden Stiers

15. "Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them."
Author: Dean Koontz

16. "The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate."
Author: Dexter Scott King

17. "In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW."
Author: Dido Armstrong

18. "Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea."
Author: Eberhard Weber

19. "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."
Author: Eric Burdon

20. "The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there."
Author: Geoffrey O'Brien

21. "What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
Author: Herbie Mann

22. "I just stroll in right before the recording goes on."
Author: Humphrey Lyttelton

23. "I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam."
Author: Jack Irons

24. "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."
Author: Janet Jackson

25. "Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful."
Author: Jenni Rivera

26. "The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it."
Author: Jim Dale

27. "We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
Author: Jimmy Carl Black

28. "I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I'm in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one moment after another in the most complex combinations.Freed from the boundaries of time and space. I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you. - Dziga Vertov 1923"
Author: John Berger

29. "About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck."
Author: Johnny Rivers

30. "My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career."
Author: Jon Secada

31. "But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer- big recordings of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like concert- pick the snow?"
Author: Lauren Oliver

32. "When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone."
Author: Leelee Sobieski

33. "Then came that sigh. I wish I had had a tape recorder handy every time in my life that I heard a boy sigh at the outset of urination. What a lovely sound. So much satisfaction. Girls sigh far less often before they pee, and not with the same devotion, I think. If only I had such a recording of boys' sighs. I would lie on a pillow in the sunlight of the late afternoon, sometimes listening to Chopin, sometimes Schubert, and sometimes to the sighs, seriatim, of all the boys about to pee."
Author: Matthew Sharpe

34. "An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer."
Author: Max Planck

35. "I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings."
Author: Meg White

36. "I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."
Author: Mel Torme

37. "I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples."
Author: Miroslav Vitous

38. "I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly."
Author: Neal Schon

39. "As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing will become a means for recording chatter."
Author: Nicholas Carr

40. "There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense."
Author: Nick Mason

41. "Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium."
Author: Nigel Kneale

42. "The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert."
Author: Nobuo Uematsu

43. "Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted."
Author: Peter Asher

44. "Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase."
Author: Phil Harris

45. "I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"-all at the same time. Sometimes now I listen to Louis while I have my favorite dessert of vanilla ice cream and sloe gin. I pour the red liquid over the white mound, watching it glisten and the vapor rising as Louis bends that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound."
Author: Ralph Ellison

46. "Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events."
Author: Sallust

47. "I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer."
Author: T Bone Burnett

48. "It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus."
Author: Thomas Dolby

49. "I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available."
Author: Tom Felton

50. "My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
Author: Tom Glazer

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