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Audio Engineer Inspirational Quotes (234)

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Bose
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I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians...What is one more life thrown away in this sad and useless national tragedy? If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country.
Malachi Ritscher
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It often comes down to the people that you get to work with, and to match or enhance their creation. I tend to fall in love with whatever project we are involved in at the moment.
Per Hallberg
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We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
Amar Bose
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In reality, there's a limit to putting a record out yourself. When it comes to working with major record companies in the context of them owning anything, though, that will never happen. Ever. In my life.
Kevin Shields
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It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?
Dr. Dre
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Chet Atkins
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Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.
Dr. Dre
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Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous... They're heavy like Soundgarden or Zeppelin with killer female vocals, but with their own unique style.
Jack Endino
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I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
Steve Albini
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I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.
Dr. Dre
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Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Chet Atkins
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You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.
Keren Ann
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When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff at his house, its almost always great.
Steve Albini
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I love expanding people's musical horizons, because daytime radio can be so generic and people get sucked into listening to the same crap all the time. Sometimes it just takes one simple little thing to actually inspire people to branch out a little more.
Maya Jane Coles
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A lot of good musicians made me look good.
Cosimo Matassa
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I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
Dr. Dre
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The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.
Owsley Stanley
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I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.
Keren Ann
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And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.
Dr. Dre
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You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.
Ray Dolby
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I don't want to hear from a band that pretty much sounds like another band. Oh I've heared this riff before, or I've heared these words that everyone is saying. I want to hear new poetry, new guitar riffs, new drum-beats, new sounds. Then I'm really interested.
Gordon Raphael
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If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.
Jimmy Iovine
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When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.
Jimmy Iovine
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