Michael Pitt Quotes

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

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.

If you got a vibe with a producer I think you should go full-fledged instead of being satisfied with two songs.

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

I want to have hit records, but I'm not searching to say, 'All right, I need this to be in the club. I need this, that.' I'm just making quality music.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

I never liked making albums.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

In those days I don't' think they were even demos.

My profession is called record production.

There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

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.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.