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I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement.
When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
Nas, Big L, Rakim, Jay-Z, Eminem, those was all my influences, but I didn't start recording until I was 16.
I hate re-recording. I like singing, but I don't like recording a song over and over, making it too perfect.
DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.
You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.
For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.
If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
I had a recording contract with Capitol Records. I loved recording and being in that studio. I made four albums.
Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.
I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.
I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.
For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.
We get some great gifts. Trophies, very funny things, one woman even made a diorama of us sitting recording the podcast.
I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.
Having built-in video recording capabilities for a game that focuses on user-generated content might be a very good thing.
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 been with Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I'm forever grateful.
I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
When you're on the road, you've got to have your four-track - or some kind of recording device to jam on and have a good time.
I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.
I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.
Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.
I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.
There are still recording artists out there doing things for the right reason, but a lot of people seem to be just driven by fame.
A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'
I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher and higher.
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.
Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical translation of the audio recording.
All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to do what I do for a living.
We just weren't a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was recording in New York or Los Angeles.
On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.