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Famous Sound Engineer Quotes And Sayings
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“Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they’re going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.”
Dick Dale
“ I felt myself getting whiter … What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?”
Don DeLillo
“So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless.”
Elizabeth Cunningham
“Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they’re going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.”
Dick Dale
“ I felt myself getting whiter … What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?”
Don DeLillo
“So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless.”
Elizabeth Cunningham
“I haven’t got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.”
Joanna Lumley
“ Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that’s how we connect with our audiences.”
Stefon Harris
“I wondered what one wore to visit a vampire. The chic red sweater set didn’t go so well with my darker hair, and I was afraid it might be construed as a flirtatious invitation to color me bloodier. “
Karen Marie Moning.
“I haven’t got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.”
Joanna Lumley
“ Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that’s how we connect with our audiences.”
Stefon Harris
“I wondered what one wore to visit a vampire. The chic red sweater set didn’t go so well with my darker hair, and I was afraid it might be construed as a flirtatious invitation to color me bloodier. “
Karen Marie Moning.
“ Hey, cowboy, what’s happening?”
Chris Crutcher
“The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That’s why they have a producer and engineer – to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.”
Nikki Sixx
“ Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I’d multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.”
Marilynne Robinson
“ Hey, cowboy, what’s happening?”
Chris Crutcher
“ Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I’d multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.”
Marilynne Robinson
“The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That’s why they have a producer and engineer – to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.”
Nikki Sixx
“I think every time you go to do something, it’s a challenge. Somebody said to me, ‘You’ve done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?’ I said, ‘I’d do everything I did better.”
Liza Minnelli
“ If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering … then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike’s longing?”
Carole Maso
“I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.”
William S. Burroughs
“I think every time you go to do something, it’s a challenge. Somebody said to me, ‘You’ve done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?’ I said, ‘I’d do everything I did better.”
Liza Minnelli
“ If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering … then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike’s longing?”
Carole Maso
“I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.”
William S. Burroughs
“I would have easily forgiven his pride, had he not mortified mine”
Jane Austen
“ I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing”
Graham Moore
“ I love action films. I don’t really like drama.”
Danny Trejo
“I would have easily forgiven his pride, had he not mortified mine”
Jane Austen
“ I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing”
Graham Moore
“ I love action films. I don’t really like drama.”
Danny Trejo
“Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that’s how deep it goes they don’t want to know.”
Shulamith Firestone
“ At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn’t feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it”
Thomas Dolby
“ Everything I’ve ever done is out. I don’t have boxes of unreleased stuff. There’s nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don’t like the sound of it or it didn’t work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone …”
John Lennon
“Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that’s how deep it goes they don’t want to know.”
Shulamith Firestone
“ At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn’t feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it”
Thomas Dolby
“ Everything I’ve ever done is out. I don’t have boxes of unreleased stuff. There’s nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don’t like the sound of it or it didn’t work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone …”
John Lennon
“The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man … is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it’s also what the show’s about, one administration ends and another begins.”
Stockard Channing
“ I was a sound engineer, and all of these gurus and shamans would come, and I would record the workshops they were teaching. And I took part in a shamanic journeying workshop, and this woman leading the workshop had brought Ayahuasca, which is a Peruvian hallucinogen and contains DMT.”
Larkin Grimm
“The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man … is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it’s also what the show’s about, one administration ends and another begins.”
Stockard Channing
“ I was a sound engineer, and all of these gurus and shamans would come, and I would record the workshops they were teaching. And I took part in a shamanic journeying workshop, and this woman leading the workshop had brought Ayahuasca, which is a Peruvian hallucinogen and contains DMT.”
Larkin Grimm
“For me, a quarterback’s best friend, especially a young quarterback’s best friend, is a coach who believes in him.”
Robert Griffin III
“Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound – microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities – anything from songwriting to judging performances – setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!”
Matt Squire
“As a producer I have to infer what they really really want”
Matt Wallace
“For me, a quarterback’s best friend, especially a young quarterback’s best friend, is a coach who believes in him.”
Robert Griffin III
“Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound – microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities – anything from songwriting to judging performances – setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!”
Matt Squire
“As a producer I have to infer what they really really want”
Matt Wallace
Funny Audio Engineer Quotes
Funny audio engineer quotes that sound guys will love
“No matter how great the band, if the sound guy sucks, the band sucks.”
Unknown
“A great sound system will only get you as far as the engineers’ ability to mix.”
Unknown
“If that old geezer doesn’t shut up, Im gonna hit him with my mag light”
Unknown
“No matter how great the band, if the sound guy sucks, the band sucks.”
Unknown
“A great sound system will only get you as far as the engineers’ ability to mix.”
Unknown
“If that old geezer doesn’t shut up, Im gonna hit him with my mag light”
Unknown
“Yes, really, I do this for a living”
Unknown
“No, I can not make the band suck less”
Unknown
“Can I get more talent on stage please?”
Unknown
“Yes, really, I do this for a living”
Unknown
“No, I can not make the band suck less”
Unknown
“Can I get more talent on stage please?”
Unknown
“An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet”
Unknown
“My Friend has a baby, i am recording all the noices he makes so i can later ask him what he meant”
Unknown
“If you have a complaint, please press the red button”
Unknown
“An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet”
Unknown
“My Friend has a baby, i am recording all the noices he makes so i can later ask him what he meant”
Unknown
“If you have a complaint, please press the red button”
Unknown
Sound Man Quotes
“As it turned out, none of this mattered, as in the end, after the group broke up, John gave the tapes to Phil Spector, who puked all over them, turning the album into the most syrupy load of bullshit I have ever heard. My master tape, perhaps quite rightly, ended”
Glyn Johns
“No one should ever underestimate the influence that Pete Townshend has had on popular music. There is no question in my mind that both he and The Who were every bit as influential as The Beatles and the Stones as the UK invasion took America and the rest of the world by storm. He was equally as innovative as a musician and lyricist, finding a way to state the feelings of the mod generation he and the band represented. The combination of these four unlikely cohorts interpreting Pete’s writing was something to behold, each of them contributing in his own original way. The seemingly uncontrolled explosion of energy they produced, glued together by exceptional musicianship.”
Glyn Johns
“took an instant dislike to him and this impression was to remain with me for many years, until I met him under completely different circumstances and came to realize what an exceptional man he was. If you want a great read you should get his book, written with Robert Greenfield, called Bill Graham Presents. It is a fascinating autobiography of an extraordinary man.”
Glyn Johns
“Having started when everything had to be recorded at once, I have never lost the value of musicians interacting with one another as they play. This can be so subtle, and invariably is nothing more than a subconscious emotive reaction to what others are playing around you, with what you are contributing having the same effect on them. When a musician overdubs his or her part onto an existing track, this ceases to be a two-way reaction. With only the musician who is added being affected by what he or she is playing to. Recording equipment was originally designed to capture the performance of a piece of music. Now it influences the way music is written and performed.”
Glyn Johns
“John had recently appeared in the Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus in a supergroup that was an unlikely combination of him, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Mitch Mitchell. It was unrehearsed, and the performance was just a bit of fun really. I was in my booth, way up in the gods, recording the sound for the show, and the area on the set where they were playing was obscured from my view. All was going well until I heard this extraordinary noise that sounded like someone stepping on the cat. I panicked, thinking that a piece of equipment might be malfunctioning, while peering at the screen trying to see if it was adversely affecting the guys onstage. All of a sudden a picture appeared of a small figure with a black bag over its head with a mic cable disappearing into it. It turned out to be Yoko, who had decided to contribute to the proceedings. How anyone could have considered her intrusion to be in any way musical is a complete mystery to me.”
Glyn Johns
“When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, ‘It’s going to be down to some sound guy’s ideas.’ Contact microphones on the violins. I’m a purist, I suppose.”
Jonny Greenwood
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