Flats Quote by Erykah Badu

I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.

— Romy Madley Croft

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I…

— Gary Allan

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

— Paul Lansky

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

— John Frusciante

I used to have a radio show. That's how I started foolin' around with recording.

— Howlin' Wolf

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

— Beck

I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can…

— Marvin Gaye

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape…

— Bucky Pope

One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you're doing. It's…

— Ben E. King

I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts…

— Petra Haden

When I made my first record, I was very naive, and I didn't know much about production, and I had a very basic amount…

— Bonobo

I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.

— Rostam Batmanglij