Producer Quotes

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
Waylon Jennings

Work, Big, Days

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
Sheryl Crow

Beauty, Someone, Says

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.
John Ratzenberger

Mind, End, Children

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
Vincent D'Onofrio

Art, Business, Actor

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.
Britt Ekland

Time, Mother, Career

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.
Jon Landau

Work, Friend, Ambition

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
Stephen Colbert

Takes, Writer, Minute

I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.
Mayer Hawthorne

Enemy, Deep, Learn

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.
Kristin Davis

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
K. D. Lang

Trying, Perfect, Sing

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
David E. Kelley

Hope, Plan, Chemistry

I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.
Robbie Coltrane

Money, Best, Job

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.
Laura Hillenbrand

Writing, Him, Working

I want to get into producing. I really learned a lot from 'Girls Next Door.' Kevin Burns is a great producer. He's really talented, and he taught me a lot. I'm just looking forward to spreading the wings a little bit. Five seasons on 'Girls Next Door' was great, but it gets a little repetitive.
Holly Madison

Great, Forward, Learned

I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.
Bradley Whitford

Time, Long, Political

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
W. Edwards Deming

Innovation, Customer

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?
Matt Stone

Happen, Weird, Hollywood

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
Atom Egoyan

Important, Working, Decisions

I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.
Dita Von Teese

Creative, While, Side

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
Al Franken

Politics, Comedy, Pressure

So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.
David Guetta

Music, Dance, Anymore

The problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the producer might say he's happy with my vocal take but I'll say, 'No, it can be better.' I'll do it again and again until I feel I've got the truth out of a song.
Nicole Scherzinger

Truth, Happy, Problem

Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video.
Mike Judge

Goes, Video, Voices

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
Sam Mendes

Time, Same, Fact

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.
Christopher Eccleston

Good, Able, Protect

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.
Alan Ladd

Everything, Acting, Costumes

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.
John Hench

Work, Good, Thought

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.
David Coverdale

Long, Problems, Taken

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
Tony Visconti

Today, Person, Often

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.
Tony Visconti

Music, Job, Put

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