Quotes About Music

I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.

I've been listening to this group called the Veils, which I kind of discovered late. I've been really obsessed with this album that they have called 'Nux Vomica,' and I just think it's a brilliantly produced and written rock record.

One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

Boygenius' was the first time I produced without a producer-producer in the room. It's been crazy.

I know it sounds funny coming from me, 'cause I produced it, but that's one of my favorite bodies of work. That's what 'Beast Mode' was when it came out and still is.

'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.

I've produced all of Childish Gambino's music.

I'm no Robert Christgau or Chuck Klosterman, but I would say that Landlady is like if Harry Nilsson was produced by Brian Eno. Or, if David Byrne fronted Wilco. Those are my two hoity-toity musical epigrams.

I was known as a ballad singer who sang melodramatic heavily produced ballads. I'm not known as a mid-tempo singer who does fun songs. I'm not going to do a song like 'Dancing on the Ceiling.'

I am one of the best singer-songwriters this country has produced. Ever.

My job as a DJ and a producer is just to have a big encyclopedia in my head.

There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

I've never worked hands-on with a producer. I've been on my own writing, just taking beats and doing what I have to do. I've been on my own. To have Timbaland invite me in and say that 'I want to work with you' is amazing. He's a legend.

I really love Stuart Price, he's a great producer and beat maker.

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

As a producer and DJ, I just like makin' great music and hot records for the club.

The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like - all of it: the why, when, and how.

The main thing about being a producer and not a beatmaker, the difference is the ear.

My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.

I started posting a few covers on SoundCloud in 2017, and that got me into contact with my producer who I still work with, Josh Fountain.

In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer.

When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.