Recording Quotes

There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

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.

Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

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.

I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time.

I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.