Agent Quote by Lesley Gore

I met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it.

— Robert Davi

I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted…

— Brian McKnight

I tried to stay away from the Euro beats, and not go totally pop. Instead, I wanted to take the Quincy Jones approach. The…

— Chris Brown

I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear…

— John Prine

What happened was I was a songwriter on Quincy Jones' publishing company, Qwest, for two and a half years before I gave him the…

— Siedah Garrett

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

— Wanda Jackson

Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic…

— Langhorne Slim

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the…

— Roy Ayers

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 taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

— Pinetop Perkins

Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.

— Paul Smoker

I never had any formal voice training, but it's something I always wanted to do. 'So I negotiated a deal with a recording studio…

— Joe Penny