Jimmy Smith Quotes

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

'Pump' was my first song.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

I have been recording for five decades now.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.

I like to make great albums.

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.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.

We make songs like a factory and put them out.