Quotes About Expression

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.

I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn't have this. I was special.

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.

I'm no Robert Christgau or Chuck Klosterman, but I would say that Landlady is like if Harry Nilsson was produced by Brian Eno. Or, if David Byrne fronted Wilco. Those are my two hoity-toity musical epigrams.

Housewives' is real, yes. We say what we're thinking at the time. But filming our real lives is a huge production that takes a long time. Sometimes you have to sit there for hours and hours while the show is being produced.

Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I'm a producer at heart.

Part of the fun of working on 'Beverly Hills, 90210,' for me, was that I got a lot of freedom from our executive producer, Chuck Rosen, to add things, change things. I got a lot of freedom to be creative.

I enjoyed playing the dual role of an actor and producer.

I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.