Sean Lennon Quotes

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

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

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

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.

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

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

For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

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

I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

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

I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole budget and give me a fake head nod. I'm just trying to make good music. I appreciate everybody that's supporting me.

There are lots of good producers out there.

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

My profession is called record production.

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

I still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible.

Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.

I'm actually going to self-produce my next tape that I'm working on, 'Platinum Frame'. This going to be my second official mixtape.

I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige.

With Yo Gotti 'Rack It Up,' that was him hitting me like, bro, I'm about to put out a single next month, I want you to produce it.

I'm not a full-fledged producer, but I can be one if I want to really spend my time on straight being a producer.

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.