“I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.” GuyFunCareersRecordsProduceCoupleProducers Author:Ricky Skaggs
“Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.” PersonsTodayRecordsInvolvedMusicianInstrumentsProductionsProducersSole Author:Tony Visconti
“Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.” JobsFilmRecordsDirectorsBunchProducersRelatedPerformersSessionTechnicians Author:Tony Visconti
“I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.” KnowsSometimesHelpingRecordsAlbumsProducersDictator Author:Ace Frehley
“I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.” HappensSongGamesNamesRecordsCuttingFiguresFindingsExcuseProducersSongwritersMake It HappenNo ExcusesSchedulingExcuse You Author:Rico Love
“We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.” TryingRecordsBandGuidesProducersAbsolutely Nothing Author:Benmont Tench
“I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.” WantStillsSoulHelpingArtistKnownRecordsStageGloryTrainHelping OthersProducersSongwritersSoloCraveSpotlightSoul Train Author:Narada Michael Walden
“Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.” FirstsMovingSongRecordsGuitarProducersBassConstantly Moving Author:Noel Gallagher
“The crews that are going to be self-produced are going to make the great albums, as opposed to making these mix-tapes, these compilations - "Me over this guy" It sounds good individually, but the art of the record is something that is lost. It gets to the point where it's just vocalists and producers coming in and piecing things together.” ArtSelfTogetherGuyLostSoundRecordsAlbumsProducersTapeCrewThis GuyVocalistCompilation Author:El-P
“The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.” ArtistRecordsSpecialProducersMutualLove And RespectMutual RespectGood Records Author:Quincy Jones
“Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.” IfsThinkingWayMadeSaidChurchLinesRoomsLaughingRecordsInstrumentsInsaneProducersPainterFantasticLazyDigitalHallsEngineersDesksJane Author:Stevie Jackson
“My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.” WellsBigsCompanyRecordsBrotherJazzAlbumsProducersLabelsMainstreamBobGrandfatherMy GrandfatherCharlieLegendaryJazz And Blues Author:Judd Apatow
“[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.” TryingDoeRecordsColorProducers Author:Mose Allison
“I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit.” KnowsLooksWholeArtistAudienceRecordsCreditProducers Author:Chris Blackwell
“For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.” WantGivingActionArtistOpportunityEasyRecordsAccessSingersProducersSongwritersEasy To GetCollaborators Author:Steve Aoki
“DJ Sliink is amazing, and his production is on the next level. There are a lot of EDM producers that Id like to work with, not for the sake of having an engineered record, but for the fact that I love their production and music.” FactsNextLevelsRecordsSakeProductionsProducersDjsNext LevelEdm Author:Travie McCoy
“To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained, but they still need advice about producers and collaborations and single choice. They need an army and a perspective and creative friction, because nobody has all the ideas.” NeedsStillsIdeasSelfArtistChoicesCreativeRecordsSeeingAdvicePerspectiveArmyStrategyStudiosProducersCollaborationThrowingFrictionSelf Contained Author:Tom Corson
“I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer.” PeopleWellsStillsArtistRecordsPopsProducersRapperPop MusicPop ArtUnderground Music Author:Juicy J
“As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.” ShouldWritingEndsRememberArtistSocialEasyRecordsMediaFindingsIndependentCaughtStudiosSocial MediaProducersThe End Of The DayCaught UpWebsiteEasy To GetWriting MusicMerchandise Author:Tyler Hilton
“I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.” ThinkingTryingSongBitsRecordsProducersRepeatsLike SomethingNew Songs Author:Brian Eno
“Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.” WritingMaySeemsTogetherSongRecordsMusicianPicksGuitarProducersTunesSongwritersFunny ThingsLyricists Author:George Harrison
“My philosophy on writing a song for myself is that I always, always, always want to write a song. I always want to write a song. I realize that as a record producer or a singer or whatever I might not, if I recorded on myself or someone else, the first time out I might not give it the right treatment, so that the world or many people will accept it and it'll be a public hit, or anything like that.” PeopleIfsWorldWantGivingWritingFirstsPhilosophyMightSongRealizingAcceptingRecordsFirst TimeSingersProducersTreatment Author:Smokey Robinson
“When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.” WantedArtistRecordsProducersCaliforniaHanging OutJimmy Author:Johnny Ramistella
“When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.” ThinkingWantTryingCompanyRecordsSellsAlbumsExcitedPrioritiesChecksProducersWant MeRecord Companies Author:Johnny Mathis
“Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?” WritingWellsKindLittlesSaidRealWholeGuySongBitsRecordsWifePerspectiveKeysGrewHigherOne DayLittle BitGrew UpSingingIntentionProducersIronyOddMaryStandpointLullabyFalsetto Author:Bart Millard