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Quotes About Artistry

I feel like my music has so many different things going on. I've always worked with many different producers. And a lot of times, each of them has a different thing that I really love about what they do.
~ Santigold
We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to sing. We wrote our own material, chose our producers.
~ Keren Woodward
Writing was something that came easily to me and there's so many great producers who just teach you so much.
~ Nadine Coyle
I don't usually collab with producers, because I don't need to. I never have, because I don't want to break my style of how I do things.
~ DJ Premier
I love music with my soul, but I'm also a student of it, so it's very important to me to earn the respect of my peers, my fellow musicians and producers.
~ Lari White
A lot of dance producers aren't really musical, they don't care much about detail.
~ MNEK
For 'Kabir Singh,' an entirely original album had to be done and that's how music should be made, but unfortunately that does not happen as the labels and the producers are more interested in fast food music.
~ Amaal Mallik
When I want to make a creative work, I still have producers of marketing houses dictating to me how I should make a creative video and what sells! If I face that problem, I can imagine how difficult it must be for the rising generation of artistes to find sponsorships.
~ Shobana
Nobody really produces my albums.
~ J. J. Cale
Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.
~ Nicolas Cage
I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.
~ Alexander Payne
My day job these days is I am writing, producing and developing young artists here in the States, in between working on my own stuff.
~ Chesney Hawkes
As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.
~ Ralph Macchio
I love 'The Gospel Truth,' the song that opened up 'Hercules.' I thought that song was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed producing that and writing that.
~ Alan Menken
Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.
~ Ewan McGregor
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
~ Bill Wyman
I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
~ Geddy Lee
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
~ Valerie Simpson
Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.
~ Tila Tequila
My first love is producing.
~ Timbaland
I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.
~ Armin van Buuren
I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
~ Danger Mouse
I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.
~ Chris Squire
It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.
~ Labrinth