Self-Recording Quotes

A vlog look is a very specific look, and it's basically a phone look.

I wanted to be videotaped.

I knew I wanted to sing and maybe I had a chance at it, so I just started recording myself maybe five or six times a week and putting them on YouTube as much as I could with hopes that someone would recognize me.

I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.

SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.

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've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.

I don't really watch video of myself. Yeah, I don't really - I never really have.

I'm not much of a team player when it comes to making records, I've got to say.

When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.

I sing, but I'm not a singer. I'm just a producer who sings on her own songs because I can't find anybody else who sounds like me.

I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves.

I don't know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to.

The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.

Almost everything I've ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.

When I was 13 I'd record myself on my karaoke machine and if I didn't like it I'd record it again. I'd do that for hours, making sure each line sounded just right.

Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.

I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

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.

Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have skill with the camera.

When I do videos, it's just myself.

With my YouTube videos, I used to edit a lot of my own videos, so I've gotten used to seeing myself on camera.