Quotes About Expression

I'm not a writer, director or producer.

My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.

I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

Whether you're an actor, producer, writer, or director, it's all about the story you're going to tell.

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else.

I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.

One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.

I'm a horrible producer when it comes to me, but for other artists, I don't know what it is, but something happens, and I'm just really good at it.

As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.

I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to it. It's selling something: the artist, the producer, something. The emotional capacity is very small, for the listener as well.

Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's not really one genre I'm trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I'm planning on going farther.

Making a record is an intimate experience. A good producer can get things out of you that you can't get out of yourself.

Part of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center.

Madlib isn't a beatmaker, he's a producer.

When it comes to song creation, I throw in my ideas and have it discussed with the producer. The song gets its own characteristic as new ideas are incorporated.

You can have a favorite band, but when they sign with a major label... maybe a new producer says, 'You can't do that, take this down a notch.' And you'll keep listening, but you'll always think their first album was their best album.

I don't want to be labeled as a certain style producer; I just want to be producer and musician in general.

I am happy writing and being a producer not a director.

I'm a producer, not just a beatmaker but a producer.

I like so many kinds of music, and I work with so many kinds of music as a producer. When you work in 14 different genres, I find myself writing in those genres.