Phil Elverum Quotes

I started recording in my sophomore year in high school. I recorded things on my cell phone in my basement.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

My high school was what crafted my interest in recording.

The producer role attracts introverts. Making music on your computer is so appealing to someone who just sits in their room all day.

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 think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

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.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

I love recording music.

I have been recording for five decades now.

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.

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

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

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

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