Art Quote by Mike Nichols

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan…

— Scott Cohen

What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to…

— Richard Kind

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

— Kip Winger

We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist…

— Tony Bennett

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.

— Valee

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

— Malcolm Wilson

I don't want to be labeled as just a producer. Producers have little control and they get little respect. And I'm a man of…

— Tay Keith

I know what it's like being a producer coming up. When big producers are in the room, you gotta perform.

— Nav

I think that sometimes, as producers, we just service the artists who's really just the main front or person. You know, our roles are…

— No I.D