Recording Quotes

When we're recording, I always dress up.

— Britt Daniel

I love recording music.

— J. J. Abrams

I want recording to be fun.

— Matt Skiba

I've always loved the recording studio.

— DJ Yella

We're always recording music, writing songs.

— Hope Sandoval

Recording should be fun.

— Rickey Medlocke

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

— Edward Weston

I've always loved music and loved recording.

— Samantha Barks

I was ill in '98. By the end of '99 I was recording and recovering.

— Dennis DeYoung

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

— Jan Hammer

I became fascinated with recording in an open room.

— Daniel Lanois

It depends who your technician is as to how much fun the recording is.

— Sarah Harding

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

— Lil Yachty

We're all recording our lives one way or another.

— John Wilson

Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.

— Brian Fallon

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was…

— Chuck Inglish

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of…

— Jack White

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

— Aurora Aksnes

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into…

— Colin Greenwood

After Wings I did a lot of recording rather than live work. I even went into a kind of semi-retirement to places…

— Denny Laine

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.

— Doseone

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full…

— Jenni Rivera

People wanted to know where I was and what I was doing. Was I still recording? Was I touring? Was I putting…

— John Waite

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up…

— Robin Williams

The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden…

— James Mercer

Soundgarden signing to a major, then Mother Love Bone, and seeing the same happen to Alice in Chains. We were all suddenly…

— Chris Cornell

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that…

— Tom Scholz

We had a simple 8-track studio set up in the record store where I worked. And just staying after work and experimenting,…

— Phil Elverum

Recording can be enjoyable, but the hard thing is that you don't get any direct or immediate feedback like you do when…

— Ben Rector

The recording process was basically me meeting with different writers, going into their studio, starting a song and just hanging out and…

— Bridgit Mendler

When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's…

— Gene Ween

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be…

— Beck

“Love it or hate it, thrive in it or still getting the hang of it, the recording studio is the place where…

— Loren Weisman

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.…

— Tom Waits

“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play…

— Elizabeth Loftus

I wanted to do a really old-school record with young, hip musicians to give it just that fresh breath of air but…

— Melissa Morgan

“If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They…

— Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

If you're recording the song on your four-track in your kitchen, when you finished writing the song, you're recording, and it's cool,…

— Jon Brion

“In a sense, the recording stylus and its reverse component have defeated time. Up until a little more than a generation ago,…

— Judith C. Waller