Quotes by Record Producers

Where do you go if you don’t belong anywhere? If I wanted to run away then why come to the city? Because this is the place to hide. This is the place to be invisible. Anyone can be no one here, and I am someone that wants to be no one.
Steven Wilson
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Eminem
I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.
Eminem
If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.
Eminem
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!
Kendrick Lamar
Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
Mark Knopfler
Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.
Eminem
It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.
Ken Scott
Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
Brian Eno
These spider webs are my home now
Beck
Why be a king,when you can be a god?
Eminem
It's under my skin but out of my hands (Tears for Fears - Womain in Chains, 1992)
Roland Orzabal
Ask yourselfWill i burn in Hell?Then write it downand cast it in the wellThere they areThe mob it cries for bloodTo twist the taleInto fore woodFan the flamesWith a little lieThen turn your cheekUntil the fire diesThe skin it peelsLike the truth, awayWhat it wasI will never say...
Joshua Homme
Chaos isn't good for your health.
India.Arie
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
Eminem
The only thing that gets you through is the firm, unbreakable belief that you have something special to offer. It's why people like Jack Nicholson make it when they're 30 and become one of the greatest actors to ever live. I'm sure when he was 21 someone said, "You ain't got it, kid!" But there is something innate inside us that tells us to not give up. And then you get better. I'm a much better singer and performer now than I was 10 years ago. If you believe in yourself, anything's possible.
Robin Thicke
I’m a maker of ballads right prettyI write them right here in the streetYou can buy them all over the cityyours for a penny a sheetI’m a word pecker out of the printersout of the dens of Gin LaneI’ll write up a scene on a counter- confessions and sins in the main, boysconfessions and sins in the mainThen you’ll find me in Madame Geneva’skeeping the demons at bayThere’s nothing like gin for drowning them inbut they’ll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging dayThey come rattling over the cobblesthey sit on their coffins of blackSome are struck dumb, some gabbletop-heavy on brandy or sackThe pews are all full of fine fellowsand the hawker has set up her shopAs they’re turning them off at the gallowsshe’ll be selling right under the drop, boysselling right under the dropThen you’ll find me in Madame Geneva’skeeping the demons at bayThere’s nothing like gin for drowning them inbut they’ll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging day
Mark Knopfler
Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.
Ken Scott
I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind! There was something so special about that place...even your emotions had an echo...and so much space!
CeeLo Green
I act like shit don’t phase me inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive
Eminem
It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.
Freddie Mercury
Lonesome tearsI can't cry them anymoreI can't think of what they're forOh they ruin me every timeBut I'll try to leave behind some daysThese tears just can't eraseI don't need them anymoreHow could this loveEver turningNever turn its eye on meHow could this loveEver changingNever change the way I feelLazy sun your eyes catch the lightWith the promises that mightCome true for awhileOh I'll ride farther than I shouldHarder than I couldJust to meet you thereHow could this loveEver turningNever turn its eye on meHow could this loveEver changingNever change the way I feel
Beck
People tell me not to cook, drive, or touch anything for the sake of world peace.
Namjoon
I'm a movement by myself, but I'm a force when we're together.
Ne-Yo
If you're wonderful in any way somebody will fuck with you. Just like if you're horrible in any way they're gonna fuck with you. The world is for the average and the common. Those are the people who never hurt - they just fall asleep. The rest of us, we're The Walking Wounded.
Kim Fowley
Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.
Ken Scott
Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.
Ken Scott
Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End
Ken Scott
I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.
Eminem
I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it.
Brian Eno
I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
Eminem
We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.
Eminem
With all the fucked up things going on in the world, just the fact that we can wake up in the morning is kind of a miracle.
John Zorn
Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.
Ken Scott
By all of your beauty I am so inspired. Your love has baptized me by fire.
India.Arie
Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention
Ken Scott
No, not at all. I’m an atheist. You could say that I’m agnostic, but that’s just a certain kind of atheist (laughs). An atheist is someone who lacks a belief in a supernatural, and that’s me. I can’t say with absolute certainty that there is nothing beyond the material world, but there’s no reason for me to think there is. If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.
Steve Albini
I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
Brian Eno
God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, don’t let no one tell you, you ain’t beautiful.
Eminem
Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.
Eminem
Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.
Ken Scott
Scars are the evidence that wounds can heal. That wounds don't last forever. That healing is possible.
Lecrae Moore
Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.
Brian Eno
You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile
Bei Maejor
What do you do if you've got everything?There's only one thing you can do. More.
Pete Waterman
We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.
Steven Wilson
You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody bus… then crash it!
Brian Eno
Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.
Eminem
There's a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia. One of the things that you find time and time again - not just with music, but with literature - is that things that appear to be quite depressing on the surface can ironically be very uplifting and touching to other people. When you hear something that really reminds you that you're not alone in feeling sad, depressed, melancholic, angry - I think that can actually be a very cathartic experience.
Steven Wilson
Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3
Lecrae Moore
Don't be afraid of the darkLook insideGrab your heartLet it shineIf it's dark outsideShine your light
Will.i.am
I am light. I am not my age, I am not my race; my soul inside is all light. I am light.
India.Arie
No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.
Frank Ocean
I feel I'm living in parentheses
Steven Wilson
My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.
Ken Scott
Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you're blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone
David Banner
This empty kitchen's whereI'd while away the hoursJust next to my old chairYou'd usually have some flowersThe shelves of booksEven the picture hooksEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onIf this old neighborhoodSurvived us both alrightDon't know that it withstoodAll the things that took our lightYou on the stairI can see you thereEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onOnce there was a little girlUsed to wonder what she would beWent out into the big wide worldNow she's just a memoryThere used to be a little school hereWhere I learned to write my nameBut time has been a little cruel hereTime has no shameIt's just a place whereWe used to liveIt's just a place whereWe used to liveNow in another townYou lead another lifeAnd now upstairs and downYou're someone else's wifeHere in the dustThere's not a trace of usEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onIt's just a place whereWe used to liveIt's just a place whereWe used to live.
Mark Knopfler
I never knew cocaine to improve anything. When the white lines came out, it was time to call it a night: the music could only get worse. If I joined in, the next day's playback would provide clear evidence of the deterioration of both the performances and of my critical ability to judge them. I suspect that the surge in cocaine's popularity explains - at least in part - why so many great sixties artists made such bad records in the following decade.
Joe Boyd
You're just the girl of my dreamsBut it seems my dreams never come true
Beck
If you could see my thoughts, you could see our faces.
Frank Ocean