Quotes About Innovation

People will go through 50 beats from a producer and pick the best ones, go make a song on that beat. That's cool, but someone coming to me and hearing what I've been working on, picking out pieces of all of that, and then adding some of their own ideas is way more exciting.

I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.

I'd like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris... there are so many artists and producers.

I don't sit around listening to beats all day. There's so many producers, and so much of it is derivative.

I wanted to be a great producer so I studied great hip-hop producers, but also stuff beyond that: Phil Spector, David Axelrod, Gamble and Huff. They're equally as influential to me as Dilla, Premier, and Pete Rock.

Well, I mean there are so many producers that inspire me. I used to try to imitate production by certain people. And now I'm only interested in doing the opposite of that. I'm only interested in doing production that like no one's ever done before.

There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.

When I came up, one of my favorite groups and producers was Three 6 Mafia.

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other part of development is I will work with my friends who are just some of the best producers in the world, give them an idea.

I love writing with really experienced producers and co-writers who open my mind to things I never would have thought otherwise. We may think the same way about something, but they might say it in a way that I never would have thought to say it.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

There are lots of good producers out there.

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

Producers are now employees, not creators.

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Basically, I'm one of the greatest producers ever. And I'm also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I'm also one of the best executives ever.

As a director, I've wanted to have adventure in my life, creative adventure. I think it's partly because I grew up, basically from age six to 26, mostly on television series where the producers find something that works and then do it over and over and over again.