Bruce Johnston Quotes

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

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

My favorite record was the one I produced with Clark Kent.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

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

I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.

I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully.

By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

My profession is called record production.

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.

There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I'm label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement.

We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.