20th-century Producer Quotes

Reese Witherspoon

Sandra Bullock

Charlize Theron

Harrison Ford

Jean-Michel Jarre

Ice Cube

Hans Zimmer

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

Michael Lang (producer)

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

Since you was tricked, I have to raise ya
From the cradle to the grave
But remember, you're not a slave.

I said a hip hop
the hibbie, the hibbie
to the hip hip hop, you don't stop the rockin
To the bang bang boogie, say up jumped the boogie
To the rhythm of the boogedy beat.

Sylvia Robinson

When you were down and out
I used to help you out
But now that you win jackpot
You don't remember that.

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

Steve Schirripa

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

My word is my sword
And I use my vocal cords.

Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

If I'm more of an influence to your son as a rapper than you are as a father…you got to look at yourself as a parent.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.

You will be one of the 10% of people out there who are in that bracket because you've succeeded, 90% of people don't live their dream, they talk about it. We've all been in the pub when your mate says 'I'm going to do this' and you go back a year later and he's sitting in the same chair saying the same thing. We've all been there or know someone who's been there.

Making the movie Babe opened my eyes to the intelligence and the inquisitive personalities of pigs. These highly social animals possess an amazing capacity for love, joy and sorrow that makes them remarkably similar to our beloved canine and feline friends.

Took a walk and passed your house late last night,
All the shades were pulled and drawn way down tight.
From within, the dim light cast two silhouettes on the shade.

It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

Tony DiTerlizzi

I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

It filled me with dread – she had a reputation for being difficult. She had been headlining on the Royal Command performance the night before we were due to start. She arrived and swept through reception looking like thunder and disappeared into the studio. I thought, 'I'm the first here, I'd better go in and introduce myself'. I walked in and I said: 'Morning Miss Bassey, my name is Martin Rushent and I'm going to be your new engineer and co-producer'. She threw a mic stand at me. She told me to get out. She apologised afterwards, I hasten to add.

Who do you think you are kidding, Mister Hitler?
If you think we're on the run?
We are the boys who will stop your little game
We are the boys who will make you think again.

Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

Jazz is a language. It is people living in sound. Jazz is people talking, laughing, crying, building, painting, mathematicizing, abstracting, extracting, giving to, taking from, making of. In other words, living.

You spend months and months listening to the music, absorbing, practicing, working with real musicians who worked with them and getting as much of that as you can. And then the day you start shooting, you have to throw it all away. Because, they had no self-consciousness. They were natural performers and at that time, it wasn't about how you could synthesize a voice and make it appealing, it was about the natural little hiccups and the way you related a story or wrote the soul in the words you wrote. And 90% of your popularity was your performance and your interpretation of your own song. So, once we learned it all you just have to just kind of hope it all sunk in somewhere and just let it all go, cause they just had incredible confidence.

Reese Witherspoon

Please can we have no more complaints about the pauses in Tony Blair's speeches. They are the best parts.

Somewhere there's a happy harbor
far from the storm.
Out where the sun shines there is someone
I'm meant to adore,
and I know the day I find her,
I'll smile once more.