Jimmy Page Quotes

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back and do a pop album. It needs its own length of time.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

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 just a musician and a record producer.

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.

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

I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

If you listen to Semi-Precious Weapons' last single, 'Aviation High,' you can definitely hear that even in my old band, even in the songs I was writing then, the pop influence really started to take over.

Working with Babyface was legendary.

'Pump' was my first song.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.