Band Quote by Shavo Odadjian

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

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

I always think that you should never, ever force a producer to do something with a song that they don't think they can do…

— Beth Hart

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

— Jim Root

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.

— Eric Bachmann

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

People think that the big companies make songs and their artists just release it. It's not like that.

— Henry Lau

I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song.

— Rostam Batmanglij

It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside…

— James Iha

Rick Rubin was able to do things that Dave Fortman could never do. I'm not trying to take anything away from Dave Fortman as…

— Jim Root

This way, if I did the album myself, and I produced it myself with my own label, it was going to be done the…

— Laura Bell Bundy

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make…

— Chrissie Hynde