Pat Travers Quotes

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

My profession is called record production.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

I just felt something was missing from my vision of what Tycho should eventually be. It took several years of learning new recording and production techniques to get to a point where I felt I could make a record like 'Awake.'

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

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

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

It's always been difficult to make a good record.