Coming from Ruff Ryders, there would be, like, 30 guys in the studio at once, and then me, trying to do my own thing.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

Studio people are bright. Empowering. They don't want to have to interfere creatively. That's their horror story, too.

When I was in the studio doing 'Hungry Eyes,' we had to make it an '80s record, but we wanted it to feel like the '60s.

I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.'

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.

Studio films are driven by marketing. The currency is literally money. But in the indie world, the currency is passion.

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

The same day I was supposed to go to college, I ended up hitting the studio and then poppin' out on the block after that.

I don't know, whenever someone was like, 'Yeah, I'm going to the studio,' I just went with them. And I started recording.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

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.

Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.

I have a very varied taste in music from Boards of Canada to Radiohead. So I just love making music and being in the studio.

When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.

I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.

Don't even go to the studio if you don't think that your music's going to do something. You're wasting your time and my time.

I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.

I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.

I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

I run into viewers all the time who have no idea I've moved to N.Y.C. I think, for many of them, a studio is a studio is a studio.

The studio are making a lot of good noises about 'Bunker Hill;' so it would be great if that goes ahead. We had a riot filming it.

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

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.

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