Music Arranger Quotes

I always enjoyed singing and working with the late Kishore Kumar. He was a legendary playback singer, an actor, and a producer/director.

I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.

I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.

'Foolishq' from 'Ki & Ka' gave me a chance to work with renowned composer Ilaiyaraaja and Shreya Ghoshal.

Brian Eno is an iconic and omnipresent pioneer in the world of ambient music, but he's gained real staying power while working behind the boards. He's produced albums for some of modern music's most influential artists, including Devo, David Bowie, U2, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Talking Heads.

Dallas Austin... where do I begin? I adore him - he is one of the kindest people I know.

I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.

There is just one Diljit Dosanjh. Though I hope someday to be as prolific as he is.

My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person.

I'm not a superstar, per se... but I'm a musical creator - a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.

I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.

My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

I do not like producers.

I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.

I never was a liner note junkie. I didn't know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.

Personally, I'm a big fan of Ryan Tedder. He has amazing music.

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.

He has given me several blockbuster albums in all these years, and DSP is the man behind many of the best songs in my career.

I was in charge of the music in every team I played for, and that is a huge responsibility, believe me!

If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.