Quotes About Innovation

I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.

E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused.

My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

You can't be in a bubble being a producer. You have to keep up on what's happening at all times.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

When I was young, people didn't even really know what a producer was.

Israel is a producer of growth.

I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.

It doesn't matter how many records you've made; there's always a new experience you can get with a new producer.

Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's not really one genre I'm trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I'm planning on going farther.

Madlib isn't a beatmaker, he's a producer.

When it comes to song creation, I throw in my ideas and have it discussed with the producer. The song gets its own characteristic as new ideas are incorporated.

With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.

No one ever said that I couldn't create my own projects, but no one actually told me that I could be an executive producer, either.

Timbaland is my favorite producer.

Most of the time, I write songs with the arrangements all at once, in my head. There's the producer side of me that's always thinking sounds, like, 'Wouldn't this be a great sound if it existed to put in front of a song, to open it up, and then, when it did its thing, something else would happen?

Honestly, I don't think it's harder to be a producer as a woman. I think it helps me because I don't get bogged down in shows of male dominance that can sometimes get in the way of the best idea prevailing.

If you're always waiting for a producer to hire you... your chances are really, really small. I've been knocking on doors and asking for a job for many years, and my career really changed when I decided to create my own material.

Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he built his label to have big artists like Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. Then he started up a headphone company and made it a billion dollar business. He's a genius to me.

I'm a producer, not just a beatmaker but a producer.

We're a unique band, so why have a generic producer lumping you in a box with other bands that sound the same?

I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In some ways, I have looked to his career as a model for my own.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.