Producers Quotes - Page 33

• Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Writing, Different Experiences

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Cosmogirl Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

  Mark Hoppus

  Ideas, Albums, Band

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different in that, at the end of the day, it is not my art. It's THEIR art, THEIR ideas, THEIR message.

  Mark Hoppus

  Art, Ideas, The End Of The Day

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Men, Hip Hop, Black

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• You have to start at the very bottom and you've got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn't become this huge producer overnight. It took many, many years.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Jobs, Years, Doe

  "mr. hollywood". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.seventeen.com. October 22, 2005.

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• I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, "That was pretty good, it might go better." Maybe that's what I'll try to find.

  Craig Finn

  Thinking, Editors, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on an elevator or in my car listening to absolutely nothing. I'll just be driving and then the lyrics birth.

  Brooke Valentine

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Most producers today are little bedroom producers and then they get their record and get signed by an agency and go on the road, but they have no idea about DJ-ing. They have no culture about where that music comes from and they just stand behind the booth, put their hand in the air, and play all the hits.

  Cedric Gervais

  Agency, Air, Hands

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• I wrote, recorded and produced everything myself. I played the guitars and keyboards while the drums were programmed. As a producer, I think music technology has reached a point, where the results that can be achieved in this way, allows me to create the music and sounds I envision.

  Paul Wardingham

  Technology, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.

  Paul Wardingham

  Tvs, Film, Soundtracks

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

  M. Ward

  Voice, Musician, Unexpected

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• The best part of being signed by a major label was having the support of a big company behind me and the ability to meet new artists and producers.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Artist, Support, Labels

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• Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!

  Matt Squire

  Song, Responsibility, Numbers

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• I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.

  Dawn Angelique

  Writing, Ideas, Appreciate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative life.

  Michelle Glick

  Giving, Creative, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.

  Rob Huebel

  Jobs, Thinking, Jail

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• I've produced things myself, I was like telling the producers how to do the show. They really didn't appreciate that, they just wanted a dumb rocker on the show and they got some guy telling them how to do their job. So being too smart can get in the way.

  Dee Snider

  Jobs, Smart, Appreciate

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I] had a conversation about it. I read it. We kind of finished each other's sentences when it came to the nuances and personality flaws that the character had, and some stereotypes and things we were trying to stay away from. We agreed on that as well. He just kind of allowed me to run rampant with the ideas. As we paced ourselves through, we developed Turquoise.

  Erykah Badu

  Running, Kings, Character

  "Sundance 2016 Interview: 'The Land'". Interview with Hunter Harris, www.rogerebert.com. February 2, 2016.

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• I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

  Kieran Bew

  Pests, Want, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of producers always say "what direction are you going in?" and I don't know. I'm just doing music. Right now it's going well. It's a little slow, but it's expected because I haven't been in the studio for a minute.

  Ginuwine

  Littles, Minutes, Wells

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and the person who bought it was Alan Heinberg, one of the executive producers of the show and was a huge fan of my work and asked if I'd be interested in maybe being the ghost artist for Seth. It clicked and I could relate to Seth's plight on the show. It became really easy to fill in his shoes, and people really grabbed onto it; they really dug that sort of very minor sub-plot in the show.

  Eric Wight

  Art, Adventure, Ebay

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue to work because I'm good at my craft. I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

  Adina Porter

  Beautiful, Thinking, Laughing

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• I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I got my deal off MySpace.com. I wrote to J.R. Rotem. He is big producer. He's done a lot of stuff for Rihanna, 50 Cent, Britney Spears and etc. I thought, "Yo, this guy is really talented I want to work with him." Once I sent him message he didn't reply back. I kept on sending the messages. I kept on hitting him back like eight times a day. He eventually replied back like, "Yo, I want to hear more music."

  Sean Kingston

  Eight, Guy, Done

  "Sean Kingston Talks About His Hot Song". Interview with Alicia Quarles, www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2007.

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