I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run…

Actually, I didn't want to act, I wanted to become a producer or a director or something.

— Rimi Sen

There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album,"…

— Shuggie Otis

Working with a producer like Rajan Shahi is the best thing on television.

— Madalsa Sharma

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time they're like, "Can…

— Glenn Danzig

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

— Michael B. Jordan

Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So…

— Mark Ronson

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top…

— Jeff Lynne

By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

— Cameron Mackintosh

I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I…

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

When I started making music, I just wanted to be the producer who sang the hooks. I wanted to be Pharrell, honestly, the one…

— Syd

Being in front of the camera - first of all, when I wanted to get into television, it was as a producer. I never…

— Matt Lauer

I wanted a producer who had sufficient confidence to sign me without a test.

— Vera-Ellen

I went to so many record labels - name any one - and they all turned me down. For some reason I just got…

— Shuggie Otis

I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I…

— Finneas

When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what…

— Lewis Capaldi