I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.
AFROJACK I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.
NILE RODGERS Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first....
NILE RODGERS Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother w...
SAM RIVERS Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one p...
TONY VISCONTI Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic like Quincy Jones and Michael Ja...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
EVELYN GLENNIE At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, ...
ELLIOT COWAN Today, when Quincy Jones wants to stage a concert, he comes to Rome.
WALTER VELTRONI I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a...
KENNY CHESNEY Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a reco...
GEORGE HARRISON I'm a human entropy producer.
DEAN KAMEN My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing ...
JILL SCOTT I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I tr...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I'm a mom. I'm a wife. I'm an actress. I'm an executive producer. I'm an author....
TIA MOWRY I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I...
CATIE CURTIS I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every...
CARLOS SANTANA Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre.
PENNIE LILLIAN Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make ...
STURGILL SIMPSON I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different caree...
DAN BUCATINSKY I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a g...
D'ANGELO I'm not a very technical musician at all.
WASHED OUT I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
JACK ANTONOFF I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.
AFROJACK Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of sea...
SASHA PIETERSE But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a pr...
DREW BARRYMORE I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to...
JACK BRUCE Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo...
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE I'm part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I'm shy; I'm prude.
JILLIAN MICHAELS I'm no producer's kid.
TANYA FISCHER That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well...
JAMIE DIMON The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
PHIL RAMONE Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.
ALAN PARSONS I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No ...
QUINCY JONES It's a hip-hop record, but it's a musician-based hip-hop record,
MIKE SHINODA Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
DAMIAN LEWIS I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.
DAVID LYNCH I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician a...
CASEY ABRAMS I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to...
IRWIN WINKLER Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You k...
TOMMY CHONG I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of workin...
YANN TIERSEN The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instea...
LESLEY GORE I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive p...
STEPHEN COLBERT I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead ...
STURGILL SIMPSON I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-song...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE When we're shooting, I'm in producer mode.
BRYAN COGMAN When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
FREDDIE MERCURY I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great ...
TOM BRADY I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
PATRICK STUMP The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my...
MAURICE GREENE I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole...
FRENCH MONTANA I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating cer...
DAVID BYRNE You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer ...
WAYLON JENNINGS I'm surprised how many commercials and sitcoms and movies have a need for, 'We just need som...
DOUG JONES I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.
CHAD SMITH Lisa Marie Presley was married to musician and producer Michael Lockwood on January 22, 2006.
PAUL BLOCH I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will b...
ZEDD I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
CARSON DALY Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recordi...
TONY VISCONTI To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea...
GARY F EVANS... I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Rober...
JOHNNY VAN ZANT Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
RONALD PERELMAN Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not j...
ANSEL ELGORT I'm that girl that's a hardcore musician and loves to sing and write and play instruments bu...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real si...
NAT KING COLE I'm really not good at anything else, so if I don't make it as a musician, I'll probably...
ELLE KING But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because t...
LARA FLYNN BOYLE I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I...
JAMES TAYLOR I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. ...
JAY-Z Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he'...
ICE CUBE I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else...
ALEXIS KORNER When art calls, you have to follow it. It doesn’t happen often, so take the opportunity when it st...
A.M. WILLARD I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An ex...
STAN MUSIAL I have very strong feelings about a lot of things. I am sometimes reluctant to come straight to the ...
HOZIER My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don...
BARBRA STREISAND I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection ...
KURT ELLING I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
DANIEL CORMIER I like to entertain people according to what they're saying entertains them. As an artist, music...
MUSIQ SOULCHILD Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both...
SAM RIVERS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal a...
NICK CANNON I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can g...
DAVID SIMON When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing ...
PAULA GARCES As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru...
DARON MALAKIAN I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &...
JACK WAGNER When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challeng...
BAT FOR LASHES Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
JOHN LEGEND Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and pr...
DANNY MEYER I was fine with Quincy. I just think that (signing Price) is a little bit better recourse.
BILL PARCELLS You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that peop...
SOFIA CARSON I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I ...
CATHERINE BACH School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical id...
JAMES BLUNT I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.
MEEK MILL Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
IMAN You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, co...
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TAMALA JONES For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should w...
TAMALA JONES I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
TAMALA JONES I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the res...
DAVY JONES You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
JACK JONES Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
JACK JONES I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.
JACK JONES When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONES I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he...
DHANI JONES I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress...
GRACE JONES I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
ORLANDO JONES Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a persona...
ORLANDO JONES Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
ORLANDO JONES I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making...
ORLANDO JONES That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero,...
ORLANDO JONES Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are ...
ORLANDO JONES You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's t...
ORLANDO JONES Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES