Self-Produced Music Quotes

I've always loved making independent music.

I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

I record everything myself, I engineer everything myself.

I started making my own beats because I just couldn't afford to pay for the other ones.

I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an artist and I believe that my value is in my product and in my art form, and that's why I can't be stopped, because I began producing my record by myself, without a record company.

I'm a one-man band!

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.

Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.

It's satisfying and gratifying to make your own music, but I personally don't get the same enjoyment out of the music that I make as I do from somebody else's music that I like.

I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had to pretend it was a band.

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.