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In general, I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

— Sloane Crosley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I record all night and sleep all day.

— Damian Marley

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

— Robert Capa

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

— Kimbra

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

— Ray Davies

I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.

— Jay Reatard

Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows.

— Tony Levin

The nice thing about doing a weekly record is you're rehearsing all week and working on getting the script better. Come Friday, when it's time to actually film it, you feel like you've done most of the work!

— Rory Kinnear

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

— Linda Ronstadt

✗Opposing Perspectives

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

— Eric Burdon

When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.

— Dev Hynes