Anthony Fantano Quotes

Technology was changing just as we were getting started. You had these records by people like David Bowie and Talking Heads and Brian Eno that took production into a whole new direction. That really influenced us, and pushed us to find that early sound we had.

I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.

I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

I'm not a superstar, per se... but I'm a musical creator - a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.

I do not like producers.

If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.

I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'

Dallas Austin... where do I begin? I adore him - he is one of the kindest people I know.

David Bowie - I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn't actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s.

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.

My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person.

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

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

I never was a liner note junkie. I didn't know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.

I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

I was the youngest producer to have a No. 1 record when Kris Kross first came out, and that was a record I held for I don't know how long.

Rick Rubin is super intriguing to me because he has become this god producer in completely drastically different genres, which very few people have done.