Nicola Roberts Quotes

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

It depends on the arrangement. It could take 3 hours, it could take 3 days, it could take a week. 'Thrift Shop' took one arrangement session. We did it all in a circle that day. 'Evolution of Music' and 'Evolution of Beyonce' took a bunch of different sessions.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

Making records should be fun.

How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

One of my favorite things is producing other artists because, in many ways, it's a lot more freeing than working on your own music.

Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.

One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

As for song recordings - well, that's something that just happens. I've been working with music directors like Harris Jeyaraj sir, A. R. Rahman sir, and the experience is great.

I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

I've been working a lot with No I.D. and Hit-Boy.

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

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

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.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.