Tracy Chapman Quotes

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible.

My first love is making records, and whatever's necessary in order for me to achieve that, I'll learn how to do it.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very expensive hobby, you know?

Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn't have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I'd record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I love the magic of the studio.

If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

I have been recording for five decades now.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.