Mobile Recording Quotes

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.

I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.

If one percent of the people who take iPad or iPhone videos of concerts watch them, I'd be very surprised.

A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a melody then record it into Cubase.

Sometimes I'll be driving and a lyric will come into my head, and I will have to pull over and record it on my phone.

I am a laptop boy. People say: 'Where's your studio?' I say: 'It's in my laptop, in my rucksack.'

When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.

One of the greatest live recordings, I think, in the history of the world is Ray Charles in Atlanta... And they didn't even have a big mobile recording thing set up. The word on the street was they only had like two microphones, one for the band and one for him. Perfect recordings. I think it's mono.

When you're on the road, you've got to have your four-track - or some kind of recording device to jam on and have a good time.

I started recording in my sophomore year in high school. I recorded things on my cell phone in my basement.

I use my phone to record notes or hum melodies. That's how I remember them.

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on my iPhone.

I know some bands that are precious about their new ideas. They're conscious of the fact that people can - even from mobile phones - begin to get clearer and better recordings of the songs... so they're a lot more hesitant to play them.

You can make a whole album on your telephone, you can make an amazing video too!