--- title: "Best Tony Visconti Quotes" description: "Anthony Edward Visconti is an American record producer, musician and singer. Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers, prominentl..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tony-visconti-91893.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Tony Visconti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tony-visconti-91893.jpg) # Tony Visconti (1944) Singer United States **46** quotes in **335** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Tony Visconti is a singer from the United States, best known for *Tony Visconti: The Autobiography*. ## Quick Facts About Tony Visconti Born April 24, 1944 Nationality United States Profession Singer Notable works Tony Visconti: The Autobiography Spouse Mary Hopkin ## About Tony Visconti Anthony Edward Visconti is a 3× Grammy-winning American record producer, musician and singer. Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers. His first hit single was T. Rex's "Ride a White Swan" in 1970, the first of many hits in collaboration with Marc Bolan. Visconti's lengthiest involvement was with David Bowie: intermittently from 1968 to his final album Blackstar in 2016, Visconti produced and occasionally performed on many of Bowie's albums. Visconti's work on Blackstar was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and his production of Angelique Kidjo's Djin Djin received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album. ## Quotes by Tony Visconti · Page 2 > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-visconti/today-a-record-producer-is-even-more-involved-and-is-often-the/) [Tony Visconti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-visconti/) [Instruments](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/instruments/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/tony-visconti-14627_instruments_today-a-record-producer-is-even-more-inv_1569171.jpg) > [My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-visconti/my-father-had-a-brilliant-scholastic-record-in-high-school-and-was/) [Tony Visconti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-visconti/) [Brilliant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brilliant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/770/tony-visconti-14627_brilliant_my-father-had-a-brilliant-scholastic-rec_1124459.jpg) > [Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-visconti/now-i-know-what-it-s-like-to-be-a-rock-star-no-i-didn-t-sleep-with-5/) [Tony Visconti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-visconti/) [Cities](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cities/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaa/tony-visconti-14627_cities_now-i-know-what-it-s-like-to-be-a-rock-s_1562731.jpg) > [When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-visconti/when-i-was-five-my-parents-bought-me-a-ukulele-for-christmas-i/) [Tony Visconti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-visconti/) [Christmas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christmas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f63/tony-visconti-14627_christmas_when-i-was-five-my-parents-bought-me-a-u_2937921.jpg) > [Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-visconti/rock-and-roll-has-certainly-tried-to-take-its-toll-on-me-i-d-rather/) [Tony Visconti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-visconti/) [Arguing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arguing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c1/tony-visconti-14627_arguing_rock-and-roll-has-certainly-tried-to-tak_938350.jpg) > [I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-visconti/i-kind-of-liked-the-method-of-the-seventies-where-they-would-throw-a/) [Tony Visconti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-visconti/) [Bits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/tony-visconti-14627_bits_i-kind-of-liked-the-method-of-the-sevent_2153636.jpg) ## Tony Visconti by topic [Records (18)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/records/tony-visconti/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-visconti/#itemlist", "name": "Tony Visconti Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tony Visconti" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-visconti/today-a-record-producer-is-even-more-involved-and-is-often-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/tony-visconti-14627_instruments_today-a-record-producer-is-even-more-inv_1569171.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/tony-visconti-14627_instruments_today-a-record-producer-is-even-more-inv_1569171.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/tony-visconti-14627_instruments_today-a-record-producer-is-even-more-inv_1569171.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person…” — Tony Visconti", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. 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