Best Quote by Kenny Beats

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of…

— Arthur Fogel

I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with…

— John Bush

Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money.…

— Jake Holmes

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made…

— Peter Garrett

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

— Stephen Malkmus

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's…

— Jon Brion

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.

— Tony Visconti

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

— Evan Parker

In making a record there are so fewer people involved - at least in our case. There were no more than three or four…

— Zooey Deschanel

All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having…

— Robby Krieger

I don't understand how other producers who have no experience making a musical jump in and produce one.

— Craig Zadan

The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.

— John Prine