Studio Quotes

1. "In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell."
Author: Anaïs Nin

2. "Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't."
Author: Anthony Hamilton

3. "I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio."
Author: Blake Shelton

4. "I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene."
Author: Bob Odenkirk

5. "If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy."
Author: Bruno Tonioli

6. "I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now."
Author: Callie Khouri

7. "Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings."
Author: Chantal Kreviazuk

8. "Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public."
Author: Chris Ofili

9. "I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control."
Author: Claude Chabrol

10. "[Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as Sense and Sensibility. I've said if this happens I will hang myself. Revolting notion. Beyond revolting.Lindsay [Doran] said that the executive she had discussed it with had said 'as a human being I agree with you -- but ...' I laughed until my porridge was cool enough to swallow."
Author: Emma Thompson

11. "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."
Author: Frank Stallone

12. "I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole budget and give me a fake head nod. I'm just trying to make good music. I appreciate everybody that's supporting me."
Author: French Montana

13. "Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it."
Author: Geezer Butler

14. "Son además lo más conocido: ser, nada, etc.; determinidad, magnitud, etc.; ser-en-sí, ser-para-sí, uno, muchos, etc. Sin embargo, esta familiaridad más bien dificulta el estudio de la lógica porque, por una parte, se juzga con facilidad que no vale la pena seguir ocupándose de tales cosas bien conocidas ya y, por otra parte, porque es preciso por lo mismo adquirir ahora una familiaridad con ellas enteramente distinta, es más, incluso opuesta, a la familiaridad con que ya eran conocidas."
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

15. "I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song."
Author: Grandmaster Flash

16. "For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy."
Author: Howard Stringer

17. "Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'"
Author: Imogen Heap

18. "I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together."
Author: Irvine Welsh

19. "A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church."
Author: Jamey Johnson

20. "I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings."
Author: Jeff Goldblum

21. "More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio."
Author: Jim Beaver

22. "It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio."
Author: Jim Messina

23. "You have liberty to cast all your cares upon him who cares for you. By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes his glory to pass before the soul that seeks him — you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort, than by a day or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios."
Author: John Newton

24. "When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself."
Author: Johnny Cash

25. "It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead."
Author: Jools Holland

26. "I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and... just playing the blues!"
Author: Jools Holland

27. "I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians."
Author: Judd Apatow

28. "From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck."
Author: Karen Morley

29. "Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios."
Author: Kevin Spacey

30. "In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios."
Author: Kodi Smit McPhee

31. "I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it."
Author: Lee Krasner

32. "I do not tell her about how much I look forward to going to the Wright barn. How those couple of hours in his studio feel like an escape, a refuge. Nor do I tell Rachel that I think Damian has the most beautiful hands I've ever seen, that he walks like a cat, that he has the clearest eyes, which seem able to see absolutely everything about me. That he seems to be the loneliest person I've ever met, and it breaks my heart. All of these things feel private. Precious. And I don't want to share them with Rachel. Not yet, anyway."
Author: Lisa Ann Sandell

33. "Had been voted "Most Studious Student" by his graduating class at North Farmington High School, outside Detroit, which, as he puts it, meant"
Author: Malcolm Gladwell

34. "I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution."
Author: Marina Abramovic

35. "Twenty-two poems covered the period from Lev's first serious efforts to his arrest in 1948 at the age of nineteen. Very Mandelstamian, I adjudged: well-made, and studiously conversational, and coming close, here and there, to the images that really hurt and connect."
Author: Martin Amis

36. "Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent."
Author: Mathieu Kassovitz

37. "I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic."
Author: Natalie Wood

38. "The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them."
Author: P.G. Wodehouse

39. "My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record."
Author: Phil Everly

40. "It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you're out of the league, you're done."
Author: Richard Linklater

41. "And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly."
Author: Ridley Scott

42. "I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my house. I have a couple of vintage Jeeps I'm always working on, fixing up. And I ride horses - I grew up on a horse ranch - and play basketball. I need to cut back on my hobbies so I can work more."
Author: Riley Smith

43. "My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system."
Author: Robert Greenblatt

44. "I always used to develop a cold going into the studio."
Author: Roger Daltrey

45. "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."
Author: Roger McGuinn

46. "I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason."
Author: Sean Combs

47. "What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much."
Author: Stephen Malkmus

48. "JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise execution of an extremely efficient dictator."
Author: Stephen Prosapio

49. "If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page."
Author: Thomas Lennon

50. "But didn't everyone get everything? Hadn't they had enough yet? Everything on earth is tailored for this everyone. Everyone gets all the TV programs, damn near all the cinema, and about eighty percent of all music. After that come the secondary medium of painting and those other visual arts that do not move. Those are generally just for someone and although you always hear people moaning that there isn't enough of them, in truth someone does all right. Galleries, museums, basements in Berlin, studio flats, journals, bare walls in urban centers—someone gets what they want and deserve, most of the time. But where are the things that no one wants? Every now and then Alex would see or hear something that appeared to be for no one but soon enough it turned out to be for someone and, after a certain amount of advertising revenue had been spent, would explode into the world for everyone. Who was left to make stuff for no one?"
Author: Zadie Smith

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