Being Quote by Jean-Michel Jarre

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

— Rostam Batmanglij

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

— Erykah Badu

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

— Timbaland

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

— Paul Lansky

Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders…

— Pauline Oliveros

I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the…

— Michala Petri

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

— John Frusciante

I didn't have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to make music;…

— Pauline Oliveros

Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

— John Sebastian

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

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…

— Dev Hynes

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

— Romy Madley Croft