Mac DeMarco Quotes

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

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

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.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

It costs so much money to make a record!

Yes, I would say I had quite a rough time from 1992 to 1996. After the highs of the Eighties, work became slow from around 1987 to around 1997. I was running a small recording studio in Shepherd's Bush but wasn't making a great deal from it.

I swear, there is Capitol Studios and then there's every other studio on the planet Earth. It is the ultimate, paramount of sound in the United States of America. It is a magical place.

I consider the recording studio where I was born.

And sometimes, I'd be allowed to be hanging out in the studio, which I just loved kind of, like, being in the room with these big recording desks, with all these, like, buttons and knobs and watching the guys use them.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I'm just a fan of his work.

I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.

My favourite thing to do as an artist is record. It's a super therapeutic thing for me. Not to sound corny, but it literally is a stress relief for me.

It got to the point where I couldn't afford to borrow any more money to lose. Know what I mean? That was just before 'Frampton,' my fourth album. As we were recording it, I was very down and depressed.

My studio was built with a team of experts to record the sitar at the highest level possible, and I'm very happy with the results.

In the early Nineties, after my first round of financial problems, I started a studio in Kensal Road in London right at the time when no record company wanted to hear anything from Leo Sayer.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills.

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

In the past, when you were just starting out, you had a day and a half of studio time - maybe two, if your buddy's uncle lets you stay.

And I had such a great working experience with Paul during the 'RAM' album.

I'm not a full-fledged producer, but I can be one if I want to really spend my time on straight being a producer.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

If I get an iTunes check, I take the money out and say, 'OK, with this money I'mma go shoot me this many videos, with this money I'm going to do this amount of studio sessions.'

We're always recording music, writing songs.