Quotes About Artistry

Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.

I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to it. It's selling something: the artist, the producer, something. The emotional capacity is very small, for the listener as well.

Now that I have better producer chops, a country album is something I want to do one day. I don't know who's going to put it out. But when I do, I don't think people will call it 'country music.' They'll probably call it 'neo-soul.'

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.

Making a record is an intimate experience. A good producer can get things out of you that you can't get out of yourself.

Part of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center.

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

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

Timbaland is my favorite producer.

For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.

Even though I've been making electronic music since I was 14, it's hard for people to see you as a producer with a musical identity when you're contextualized in a band that performs on a stage.

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

I like so many kinds of music, and I work with so many kinds of music as a producer. When you work in 14 different genres, I find myself writing in those genres.

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

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 write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will be another writer in the room.

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'

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

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did 'Mars et Avril' for only 2.3 million.

I think it's good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not just the producer in the back making the beats.