You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in part to consumption and in part to savings, in order to apply it to less productive or even destructive ends, and more rarely to savings.
When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.
I'm such a copycat. "I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison. " I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer.
Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.
For a producer, you want to be in L. A. You want to be close to the action, and in L. A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created.
What would seem like an innocuous meat tenderizer turned out to be the biggest fear of every PA and producer - everyone on set. You know, it's dangerous, because you're running around and you're taking close swings at people with something that really could kill them. It's not like you have a gun with no bullets that you're doing cinematically. You actually have a weapon that you're swinging at people.
When I did a sitcom and played a postman, I was brought to tears playing that postman, because I felt like one. I didn't grow up even wanting to be a post man. Now, I understand the meaning of the term "postal. " I was bored to tears. And what was funny was that the producer actually looked like a bug.
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.
As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.
After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.
I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.
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.