Damon Dash 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 wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

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

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

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.

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

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

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.

My profession is called record production.

It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

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

I would love for Radiohead to give me a call and say, 'Hey, kid, we wanna see what it's like working with you. We want you to produce our next record.'

Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.

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

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

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

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

Making records should be fun.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.