Taylor Dayne Quotes

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

I'm very easily influenced, and I'm also a quick study, so I think when I decided I wanted to write pop songs, I literally just listened to pop radio for six months to get a feel for it and understand it.

We grew up understanding how the analog sound is a driving force for music.

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.

We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.

I sing and write a lot of pop, R&B.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

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.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we're talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

I have been recording for five decades now.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

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

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

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