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Time & Perspective Quote by Warren Cuccurullo

"Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house"

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There is a quiet flex buried in Cuccurullo's offhand "plus". It's the verbal shrug of someone steering the conversation away from mythology and back to labor. Rock culture loves the outsized gestures: the tour chaos, the public feuds, the glamorous collapse. Cuccurullo yanks the camera into the least cinematic place imaginable: a studio in his house, where the work is repetitive, technical, and mostly invisible.

The specificity matters. "Most of our time" isn't just a schedule update; it's a corrective to the idea that musicians primarily live in performance. He's framing music as manufacturing, not magic. The subtext is authority: we don't just show up and vibe, we build. In a band context especially, that line quietly asserts value. If credit or hierarchy is up for debate, studio time is where reputations get negotiated - who brings the ideas, who finishes songs, who knows how to make a track sound like a record.

The "in my house" detail adds another layer: control. Home studios collapse the distance between life and work, and they centralize power around whoever owns the room. It's intimate, domestic, slightly claustrophobic. It also signals a particular era of rock professionalism, when technology made it possible to bypass expensive commercial studios and industry gatekeepers. Cuccurullo isn't romanticizing it; he's normalizing it. The point isn't that it's glamorous. The point is that it's real.

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Cuccurullo, Warren. (2026, January 15). Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/plus-we-spend-most-of-our-time-writing-music-most-78896/

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Cuccurullo, Warren. "Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/plus-we-spend-most-of-our-time-writing-music-most-78896/.

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"Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/plus-we-spend-most-of-our-time-writing-music-most-78896/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Warren Cuccurullo (born December 8, 1956) is a Musician from USA.

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