Action Quote by Tom Waits

I sit with the intention to write a record.

— Lisa Marie Presley

You have to keep the recording process open. If you make too many decisions before you go in, you can lose out on those…

— James Mercer

Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore…

— Duff McKagan

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the…

— Steven Spielberg

One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you're doing. It's…

— Ben E. King

Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that…

— John Oates

I don't like to try to put, like, 'Let's do this type of record,' 'cause it never turns out that way anyways.

— Jim Root

There's really not much conscious thought involved when I record. I just kind of record what feels good. I'm not trying to make it…

— BØRNS

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

— Billie Holiday

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

— Elliott Smith

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

— Ramin Bahrani

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go…

— Jonathan Meiburg