DJ Jazzy Jeff Quotes

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.

I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Albums take a lot out of you.

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.

I'm thinking about a few weeks in Montreal to work with a producer I met there.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.