Top 55 Recording Studio Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Recording Studio Quotes from famous people such as Yung Lean, J. J. Cale, Benny Green, DJ Qualls, Bat for Lashes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew t

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I’d write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song ‘Hurt’ in one go at the school studio.
Yung Lean
I’m a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.
J. J. Cale
The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.
Benny Green
I’m a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.
J. J. Cale
That’s what so great about making movies. It’s that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it’s just a great job.
DJ Qualls
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it’s all of a piece.
Bat for Lashes
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.
Pete Townshend
I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.
Clint Black
After school, my mom would pick me up and I would just go to visit my dad in the recording studio, and I would see him working with Mark Hamill or hear him doing the ‘Transformers’ or a ‘G.I. Joe’ or the ‘Rugrats.’
Ashley Bell
Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep.
Michael Jackson
It was always difficult for me to listen to my singing voice for the first 20 years or so. I mean, I really enjoyed singing, and I enjoyed doing live shows, but being in a recording studio and having to hear my voice played back to me would really drive me up the wall.
John Prine
I never had any formal voice training, but it’s something I always wanted to do. ‘So I negotiated a deal with a recording studio after I gathered enough material for a record. I put a group together and just went ahead and did it. What the hell.
Joe Penny
One of the more surreal days I’ve ever had in the recording studio was Martin Fry teaching Hugh Grant his old dance moves. Showing him how to do the hair-flip and the point, and all these sort of trademark moves of his.
Adam Schlesinger
Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think… wow… I could have done THIS to it, or something.
Brian Setzer
I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
Butch Trucks
I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.
James Iha
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
Grace Slick
I’ll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won’t be able to pay the bills.
Mac DeMarco
I’m always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I’m always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I’m collaborating with.
Sebastian Bach
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.
Dennis Lloyd
In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording studio, really, where the people in the booth were not interested in making a very good album. It’s often a light-hearted atmosphere but serious at the same time.
John Abercrombie
Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep.
Michael Jackson
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
Moby
That’s what so great about making movies. It’s that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it’s just a great job.
DJ Qualls
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen’s fairs, policemen’s balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I’d seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
Bruce Springsteen
I’ve always loved the recording studio.
DJ Yella
I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.
Kiri Te Kanawa
I’m no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I’ve never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.
Nicole Scherzinger
In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording studio, really, where the people in the booth were not interested in making a very good album. It’s often a light-hearted atmosphere but serious at the same time.
John Abercrombie
I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.
Steve Brown
Personal songs take a little more to record, definitely. We had to bring our souls into the recording studio. It was us being very vulnerable. We heard that our fans can kind of feel that.
Rose
You go into any recording studio in the world, and you

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
Jimmy Iovine
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.
Pete Townshend
I never had any formal voice training, but it’s something I always wanted to do. ‘So I negotiated a deal with a recording studio after I gathered enough material for a record. I put a group together and just went ahead and did it. What the hell.
Joe Penny
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
T Bone Burnett
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.
John Tesh
I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.
Clint Black
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
T Bone Burnett
I’m always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I’m always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I’m collaborating with.
Sebastian Bach
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
Grace Slick
My old man was a musician – that’s what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he’d let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.
Dimebag Darrell
One of the more surreal days I’ve ever had in the recording studio was Martin Fry teaching Hugh Grant his old dance moves. Showing him how to do the hair-flip and the point, and all these sort of trademark moves of his.
Adam Schlesinger
You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
Anne Hathaway
I consider the recording studio where I was born.
Jimmy Iovine
Somehow, magically, I’ve become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
Moby
Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can’t just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.
Megan Hilty
I’ve always loved the recording studio.
DJ Yella
One of my earliest memories is being inside the recording studio and I see the shadow of a figure that looks an awful lot like Walt Disney. Then the door opened and Mr. Disney walked in and said, ‘Hi Clint.’ I won’t ever forget that.
Clint Howard
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.
Dennis Lloyd
I consider the recording studio where I was born.
Jimmy Iovine
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.
Bonnie Tyler
I’m portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
Abbie Cornish
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it’s all of a piece.
Bat for Lashes