#recording

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#am #artist #be true #business #businessman

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#booth #cool #recording #thing

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#artist #believe #earn #i #i think

After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#because #chance #every #got #hire

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#around #create #great #hear #hear people

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music. ↗

— Christy Romano

#garbage #i #intense #know #mixed

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#alcohol #going #i #jerry #kinda

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#did #just #mostly #much #never

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well. ↗

— Ahmad Jamal

#base #built #classical #classical music #end

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#boat #career #cd #doing #every