Never Quote by Jim Root

Dave Fortman really helped me appreciate Rick Rubin as a producer.

— Jim Root

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records…

— Johnny Cash

Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit…

— Johnny Cash

That was American Recordings. I said, I like the name, maybe it'd be OK. So I said, I'd like to meet the guy [Rick…

— Johnny Cash

Luther Vandross was doing fine, but he said, "Man, I want to do my own project." So he got us all to do a…

— Marcus Miller

I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys…

— El-P

We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like…

— Johnny Cash

This has never been a popularity contest. The people we care for and work with know who they are and how we feel about…

— Anonymous

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so…

— Eddie Van Halen

People need to go back and figure out why it is that Slipknot plays the way it is. That way, maybe, you know, maybe…

— Jim Root

I was writing before I met Rick and actually I created the band before Rick Finch. Basically, the first album, I wrote. Who's to…

— Harry Wayne Casey

When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we should put…

— Johnny Cash