DJ Premier Quotes

MMG for life.

I had a good record company right from the beginning, and I'm still with them after all these years. I think I may be the only person in the world that's had a tenure this long with any record company.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I just have so much love for my record label.

Bayern and I are like a married couple.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

I made this record without a record label.