Rodney Atkins Quotes

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

I used almost every penny I ever made to build recording studios in every city I lived in. I don't have much to show for all the TV money except a lot of musical gear and a lot of songs.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.

Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

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 usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

I could make records at home in a vacuum, but that is not the situation. I'm just taking it one phase at a time.

I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.

I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.

I bought some equipment and then I started recording real heavy, in my room, when I was like 16.

You do need money to make a good demo; you do need a bit of financial support.

I've always recorded at home. That's been part of what it's about to me. I've never been the kind of guy who rents a studio.

I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.