record making quotes

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That’s a producer.

I don’t know if I’m selfless – I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that’s not completely selfless. But the truth is I’m not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That’s always been how I am.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.