Hard Quote by Mandy Moore

I think anyone who knows the audio process knows what mixing and mastering is.

— Jim James

Producing is getting the performances, tracking it, making sure all the parts are there. Mixing is when you take the finished work, and you…

— Devin Townsend

Composing music is hard work.

— John Williams

I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to…

— Mayer Hawthorne

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will…

— Yo-Yo Ma

The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I think I…

— Kaytranada

I approach mastering a little differently than some of my peers: I spend a lot of time creating a dialogue with the artist and…

— Emily Lazar

In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out…

— India Arie

I'm not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it.

— A-Trak

It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat…

— Eminem

Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll…

— Yukimi Nagano

Producing is always really hard, and you can never tell who's going to be easy to get along with and who's going to be…

— James Murphy