Armaan Malik Quotes

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

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

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.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

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

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff.

If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.

I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

In hip hop, it's a lot more about lacing a hot track. I start it, I help mix it, I help write it, I help produce it, I cut the person's vocals. I'm involved from the beginning to the end of a song. I'm not just giving someone a beat, you know?

I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit.

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

A vocal producer is very important, and it's a very important component of an overall successful and good-sounding record.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.