Top 1200 Recording Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.

Acting is very sacred. Anyone who stands in front of a crew with the camera recording their emotions is a brave individual.

There are two genres of music: there's good music and there's bad music.

I think there's a difference between the type of folk music that people put into the box of "folk music" and then there's the kind of folk music that I aspire to and am in awe of, and that is the kind of folk music where it's very limited tools - in most cases a guitar, in a self-taught style that is idiosyncratic and particular to that musician.

So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

Everyone in my family, they do music, and they love music; it's all about the music.

I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and the music that we create and all that is coming out of us. The music is making the show and the music is creating the atmosphere, so if you close your eyes and listen and feel what it is that's coming out of the speakers, that's the whole point.

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray.

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 must say that kids make it a lot harder process, especially having to live the life of a traveling recording artist.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.

Recording and touring are totally separate universes for me and it's strange and refreshing when they invade each other momentarily.

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

No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.

I've been recording myself since grade 10. Back then, it was just really crappy rock stuff.

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

At the age of 15, I bought a USB microphone on a trip to the United States with my family, and that was my first recording studio.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Recording is just a lengthy process, so to have to record before every professional video, that's where a real time drain comes in.

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.

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

I think what I always want whenever I'm recording is to have even just 2 percent of what the Alabama Shakes have, Brittany Howard.

Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.

Recording with Meek Mill for me was like when Allen Iverson played with Michael Jordan for the first time.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won't come.

I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.

For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pink Floyd... if the Floyd ever did serious music, which I seriously doubt.

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

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

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.

I think, actually, I was the first person to ever sign a simultaneous video and recording deal with a record company.

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

'Wii Music' elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is - as 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero' do - to suggesting what it could be. Yet I'm still left wondering: Couldn't it be more?

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.