Valerie Simpson Quotes

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

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

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I can't stand making records.

My profession is called record production.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that.

Ah, the Wrecking Crew! They played on everything that came out of L.A. Oh, that was a good band. You really enjoyed going to work. You played for everyone; it didn't matter what it was.

I'm a studio rat.

It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

There was a jingle house called Lucas/McFaul in New York, and they called me 'the demo king.' I almost never had the big final - in jingles, you have the big final, and then you sing on it, and you make a good deal of money.

Making records is hard work.

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.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

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.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.