My Miyoshi studio in Japan is located in the northern part of Saitama, which puts it in quite close proximity to Fukushima. As such, we can feel the effects of radiation.
I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there.
Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.
I'm pretty selfish, I think. I'm probably a terrible dad. I don't do too much with my kids. Obviously I love them and everything, but I just stay here in the studio all day.
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but I leave room for improvisation in the studio.
There are a lot of incredible producers out there. But that doesn't mean when you get in the studio that the vibe is right and that it's a fun experience, and you can trust people, and just have a good time.
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
I love the studio. I love writing and producing both for us and for other people.
When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
I never thought I would be recording on any professional level, so to be doing a rockabilly, Motown, pop soundtrack in a L.A. studio was completely bizarre and amazing.
I love touring and I love being in the studio making music, so that's where my passion lies.
I sleep in a bunk bed because my studio's under it. It's like a loft bed.
I love swimming, and when I'm choreographing something I'm in the studio dancing all day, every day.
My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
From being in a film and shooting to just being in a studio with my guitar and musicians was a welcome change.
We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.
When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.
Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.
I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.
I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.
I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.
One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.
When we were in the studio working stuff out, and even when we were on stage, the music was a priority.
'Lolita' was a great wound in the side for me. I stuck my neck out maybe further than I should have and castigated the studio for not getting behind it.
A movie studio has to answer to a marketing department, and to shareholders, to ensure the broadest audience possible for its product; it tends to err on the side of caution as a result.
You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.
Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it's not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating it and working on it in the studio that all of that comes to life you know what I mean?
Usually, in a studio, when it's supposed to look cold, it's boiling hot. And then, the hot scenes, you're freezing.
When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.
When I'm in that studio, I feel like I'm the king of the world. If I lose that, I'm going to lose a lot.
To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.
To me, my studio is my trap house. That's where I trap out of; that's where I hustle. That's where I make my money.
I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.
Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.
No, I'm a quite big believer in not being in the studio if I don't feel like being in there.
When I'm in the studio I just try to zone out and not think of whatever is in the industry, if it sounds too much like someone else, I have a tendency to erase it.
I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.
I have a Yamaha YC-45D organ in my studio. It's actually Terry Riley's favorite keyboard, so if you find old clips of him on YouTube, he's usually playing one of these.
I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.
It's clear I'm not the best singer and don't have the best voice, but you can work a bit of magic in a studio.
I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.
The single most exciting thing that happened for me was getting to spend some time in the studio with both Marty Stuart and Vince Gill.
I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.
If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
Sammy Davis Jr. was a real movie buff who loved nothing better than being around a film studio - whether he was working or not.
If a Hollywood studio needed a fighter to play the hero in an old-time boxing movie, the search could begin and end with John Duddy.
I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.
Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.
You cannot enter a studio and just start crooning before the mike. It is essential to understand the mind of the composer, mood of the song, and meter of the tune.
Viral don't mean I'm outside wilding. I can go viral in the club or in the studio.
I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.
I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.
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