Barry Mann Quotes

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

I just felt something was missing from my vision of what Tycho should eventually be. It took several years of learning new recording and production techniques to get to a point where I felt I could make a record like 'Awake.'

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'm always going to do that - record and make music.

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 good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

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.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

I can't stand making records.

If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.

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.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

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

I can produce a rock record; if you want me to produce a street record, I can do that as well.

If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.

Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that.

I'm a producer, not just a beatmaker but a producer.

I still find time to record during the season. Offseason, I record every day until 7 A.M. - all night.

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.