John Norman Quotes

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

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

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

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

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.

My profession is called record production.

Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

I was 16 when I recorded 'Flashlight.' I produced it, made the beat, wrote it, recorded it.

I am sorry, but recording an album is just hard work; tedious, repetitive, and not very fun at all. Mixing is a bit better, but still pretty boring.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song.

I never complete a song until I'm actually going to make a record.

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

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 demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.