Stevie Jackson Quotes

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I go through phases when I've been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I'm being filmed.

In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know?

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

When you think about the industry, you think about people competing. You don't think about people getting together like, 'Let's do a record. Why not?' Especially R&B.

I can work with all these different kinds of artists and still be able to come up with huge records. Not just cool records, but game-changing records.

We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

Amaal is a music composer, and I am singer, so I think we compliment each other rather than competing with each other.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.

I've pretty much done records with everybody.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking

You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets to hear very few of these. They just won't know. They might be great records, but how in the world is the public supposed to find out about them?