“I've never had anybody produce my records. I've always produced my own records. I've worked with a guy for a while who was an engineer who helped me produce records, but I've always made my own records. I'm a control fanatic. I've got to control everything.” MadeGuyMy OwnRecordsProduceEngineersFanatics Author:John Mellencamp
“While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).” ShouldMindSoulUseBodyMovingYoungGrowsProduceFineHighestInstrumentsVery GoodTouchedEnginesEngineersBlundersGood Souls Author:Sallust
“Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.” DifferentStatesActionCoursesSocialCompanySituationPlansPolicyDesignProduceMaterialsActivityIntellectualSickPatientWelfareDesignerEngineersRemedySocial WelfareArtefacts Author:Herbert Simon
“When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.” WritingLittlesLongUniverseOpportunityProduceLong TimeHarderTradeMonstersIceEngineersCreamIce CreamSandwichesBlastPerfectionist Author:Adam Young
“The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.” TryingWholeMightTurnsSoundProduceOvercomingResponsibleInstrumentsGuitarLimitationRangeDesignerStringsEngineersElectricHendrixElectric GuitarAmplifiers Author:Brian Eno