The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.
[We need] someone like Don Sickler, who is an amazing trumpet player and who is also a publisher and amazing producer and composer and arranger. There's a lot of ways you can make a contribution.
Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.
To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time. . . To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.
I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.
As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
I never want to be the producer that I too often got.
You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.
At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
To say someone is a producer. . . it's kind of a slippery term.
Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.