Mike Gordon Quotes

That was American Recordings. I said, I like the name, maybe it'd be OK. So I said, I'd like to meet the guy [Rick Rubin ].I'd like for him to tell me what he can do with me that they're not doing now.

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band.

I think a big dream would be to do something with Aerosmith or someone like that.

Producing albums is 100 per cent where I would love to be, later in my career.

I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

I have N'Sync and Aerosmith and Britney Spears. I have a trifecta from hell.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

I met Sam Phillips when he came in [studio] and I said, I'm John Cash. I'm the one who's been calling. And if you'd listen to me, I believe you'll be glad you did. And he said, come on in. That was a good lesson for me, you know, to believe in myself.

I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

The scary thing is that this band was founded in 1988, and back then it was Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns and , like, 'What chick am I gonna be with tonight?' - it was that mentality, you know, around a keg.

[Sam Phillips] laughed at me. I just didn't like the way I Walk The Line sounded to me. I didn't know I sounded that way. And I didn't like it. I don't know. But he said let's give it a chance, and it was just a few days until - that's all it took to take off.

Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away.

Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!

I like Dave Grohl, I guess he's a little newer. It makes you shake, it's uppity and spirited.

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.