Jon Landau Quotes

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• One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in…
• The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there…
• 'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.
• I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
• In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
• It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
• 'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.
• 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…
• Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.
• The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.
• The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
• There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.
• As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing…
• Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern…
• 'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a…
• Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever…
• Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries…
• Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic…
• Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures…

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