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I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call "inties," music distributed via the Internet. The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control. -- Chuck D
My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction. -- Sean Combs
The ephemeral part of this work is that in music production, the sounds evolve so much faster than it used to, which means that you really have to put in a lot of work and effort in constantly designing the next sound that will move the culture forward. -- Steve Aoki
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions. -- John Philip Sousa
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. -- Gary Wright
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest. -- Grimes
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. -- Frank Zappa
I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting. -- Adam Kluger
Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more. -- Corbin Bernsen
The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it. -- Tina Yothers
I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way. -- Jay Reatard
Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company. -- Roy Ayers
The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI. -- Georgie Fame
Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music. -- Pink
I worked as a production assistant on a couple of films, and finally, I got a job at an animation studio as an editor. After that, work begat work. I got into directing music videos and commercials. -- Thomas Schlamme
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music. -- Barbara Mandrell
I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant. -- Bronagh Gallagher
DJ Sliink is amazing, and his production is on the next level. There are a lot of EDM producers that I'd like to work with, not for the sake of having an engineered record, but for the fact that I love their production and music. -- Travie McCoy
Before I'd even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry - songwriting or session playing or working at a label - and I was really interested in how it all works. -- Gabrielle Aplin
I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music. -- Randy Bachman
I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production team going and kind of mix records with me, that would be cool; to take the records and have them sound the way I want them to sound. But I'd rather sort though music to find them things. -- Curtis Jackson
I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music. You know, what excites me are new ideas. And with a lot of the international hits - from Lady Gaga to Rihanna and others - you'd find excellent production and groundbreaking ideas that lift the music to a greater realm. -- Shreya Ghoshal
I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music. -- Flume
I am taking my production style more into the world of dub. I mean true dub production techniques but in house music. -- Subb-an
My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand. -- Tupac Shakur
All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away from that. Take it or leave it. -- Liam Howlett
Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out. -- Aphex Twin
Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story. -- Spike Lee

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