Eric Carmen Quotes

Me and John Mayer met via a mutual connect, we were by the studio and he asked If I could play him my music. When he heard 'Under The Influence,' he asked if he could be a part of the track and of course, we made that happen.

I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night.

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.

When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.

I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.

We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.

From being in a film and shooting to just being in a studio with my guitar and musicians was a welcome change.

I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on 'Beat It.'

When I record in a studio. I know that on Tuesday at 3 o'clock I've got to go be creative.

Yeah, moving to Los Angeles definitely influenced my sound.

We'd love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I've told him. Many times. We've got loads of songs we've written that we can literally just hear his voice on.