33 Quotes by Jerry Harrison

I’ve become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.

What’s nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music.

It’s really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that’s great, and you helped them bring something out.

Most bands have a sound that they’re already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you’ve done and more and more refine an existing performance.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali – someone who actually creates a sound for them.