Recording Quotes

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

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.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.

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.

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

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.

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

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

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've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

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

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

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

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.