Sound Recording Quotes

#1. Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.

Linda Ronstadt

#2. A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.

Jonathan Lethem

#3. The late '70's and early '80s is the zenith of a certain craftsmanship in sound recording.

Thomas Bangalter

#4. A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.

Charles Petzold

#5. The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people in sound. When you play live, you want to grab people on the visceral level. They're completely different.

Matt Tong

#6. You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.

Jimmy Page

#7. Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

Juice Newton

#8. I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording and when we were trying to decide running order that I realized how sad a lot of the songs could sound.

Vashti Bunyan

#9. Crime? No, he was not. He insisted he knew nothing

John Grisham

#10. The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia
when was the past so hauntingly accessible?
but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.

Geoffrey O'Brien

#11. It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Bertie Carvel

#12. I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.

Paul Westerberg

#13. Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

Colin Hanks

#14. I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound.

Darlene Love

#15. There is nobody that can make you happy, you must take care of this matter yourself.

Leonora Carrington

#16. Father, I know you're going to do some incredible things in your world today. Please give me the privilege of getting in on some of what you're doing." In other words, church leaders should stop praying, "Lord, bless what I'm doing" and start praying, "Lord, help me to do what you are blessing.

Rick Warren

#17. Live. For Now. For the time being.

Ruth Ozeki

#18. Each player should make every effort to bring a variety of the best-sounding gear he can, because it will not only make the recording sound better, but will also make the music a lot more interesting.

Bobby Owsinski

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

Stephen Malkmus

#20. Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

#21. I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

Bob Corker

#22. If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

Tom Waits

#23. You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.

Tony Visconti

#24. I hope someone thinks I sing good. I'm always working hard to sing better. I sound the way I sound, but I can always be better. I work hard at singing and being a better recording artist.

Luke Bryan

#25. This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind.numbing disappointment. the uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all the pain and the heartache.

Denise Grover Swank

#26. 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

#27. In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.

Beck

#28. The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

Tom Odell

#29. I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

Aurora Aksnes

#30. Everyone is a recording to everyone else, a memory, a past transcript embedded in air or water or sound or light. No matter how close they are, they are not here. What they said, when they said it, it is not now.

Charles Yu

#31. I looked up at the stars that were really flowers and thought about vanillas who were really kinky folks waiting to be born

Annabel Joseph

#32. I know this kind of person. I've known them all my life. They get the sympathy of others with what passes for insecurity. But what really motivates them is a vanity so immense most of us can not conceive of it. Insecurity is simply a disguise.

Anne Rice

#33. I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

Danny Elfman

#34. There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'

Seth MacFarlane

#35. I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

Martin Seligman

#36. I was in about in the 8th grade when I started recording R&B, so much of what was on was the Motown sound, and The Beatles had pretty much come over and taken America by storm.

Betty Wright

#37. The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

Feist