Lisa Lopes Quotes

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

I have my own studio that I sing in.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

When I was about 17 or 18, I would go through my boy's garage and they had a little studio set up. I would just play around there.

My favourite thing to do as an artist is record. It's a super therapeutic thing for me. Not to sound corny, but it literally is a stress relief for me.

Being able to have a home studio is the greatest thing ever.

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

When we're recording, I always dress up.

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.

I love recording music.

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun.

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.