Quotes About Artistry

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

It was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well, and I don't think it's happened yet. There's always a possibility with each album that I might not record again, and I wanted to produce one that I could feel was mine.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was just stuff that I was dealing with.

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.

Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'

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

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

I'm a producer at heart.

Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. As far as my own music career - you could liken my chemistry with Timbaland to Marty Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

Dave Meyers is like a great producer, director.

I work with any producer that brings me a hot beat, but you don't always know if it's a sample.

I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.