Josie Totah Quotes

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I had a recording contract with Capitol Records. I loved recording and being in that studio. I made four albums.

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

When I was 19 I had a record deal.

Abbey Road was actually one of the first studios I ever got the chance to go to. A friend of mine won a competition and got the chance to spend a day recording there - that's when I was around 15 - and I was the only one who could engineer out of all of us.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

I have been recording for five decades now.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.

I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked it the next day. He's that rare guy that is in it purely for the love of it.

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

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.