When I'm traveling, I always look for a dance studio. It's a great workout and a wonderful way to meet new friends in the community.
When I hear something new, mostly in rhythms, I often find it interesting to recreate it in a studio in a completely different way.
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.
When I wake up in the morning, I've got a coffee and I'm in my own home studio just chilling... I make happy music.
The minute they gave me number one, I went to the studio. I was ready to give y'all something else. I was going 120 miles an hour.
We're always in the studio pretty much, either at home or on the road, trying to come up with new ideas and stuff.
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.
You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.
I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.
I used to work in Macon, Georgia and Spartanburg, South Carolina where the studio was about half the size of your living room.
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
No one - black, white, or any different - walks away from a three-picture deal with a studio. That's every filmmaker's dream. But it wasn't mine.
In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.
The focus is on melody: If you get it right, and it connects to the mass audience, it doesn't matter if it's a studio album or played on the dance floor.
Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you.
Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.
I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.
Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
This was the rule that I had when we made 'Frampton Comes Alive!': being known as a live performer, I'm not going to go into the studio and overdub.
Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.
When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out the other end.
Well I've been playing an SG forever, and I've got some other vintage Gibsons I like to use in the studio.
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
When I was looking for financing while making 'Hellraiser,' I wish there was a studio like Project Greenlight Digital Studios behind me.
As a member of the often maligned fourth estate, it is so refreshing to have a conversation instead of a buttoned up interview in a stifling studio.
Every day I'm in my studio - it's wooden and purpose-built at the end of our garden. It's filthy and has got paint everywhere.
I got a studio built in my house, so I was recording there in Memphis and Atlanta. Those two environments give me that street feel.
It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do something about glamourization of smoking.
I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.
It kind of irks me that the studio films still have to be so safe even though they don't really cost as much to make.
In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.
As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.
Having the opportunity to join the FOX family as a soccer analyst in their Moscow studio for what will be my third World Cup is amazing.
I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.
The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing.
But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.
When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.
I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.
People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.
One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.
My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.
Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.
Sometimes people go to a yoga class and think it's not for them, but it might just not be the right studio or teacher - try a new one!
I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have anybody to play off of.
I've always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.
[Jack Reacher] is the longest I'd ever shot anything - and let's be clear, this is my first studio feature film - so there was a huge learning curve.
I love music and hopefully I'll be able to do something with it - I just have to find time to get into the studio and record a few songs.
Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.
Coming from Ruff Ryders, there would be, like, 30 guys in the studio at once, and then me, trying to do my own 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.
In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.
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