82 Quotes by Mark Ronson

Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

Dave Guy, the trumpet player, is an incredible musician. He came into the studio one day, and they had just cut a cover of "Sign, Seal, Deliver" for something with Sharon Jones, and I just was blown away by how they got that sonic. I mean, it was just so much the real deal.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So you're coming up with, like, these - you hear these songs that are quite bare-bones, and you dream up what's the band doing? What's the rhythm section doing? What's the guitars, strings, pianos - that sort of thing. It's almost like a little toolbox.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

I didn’t start making music in order to be famous.

Dave Guy, the trumpet player, is an incredible musician. He came into the studio one day, and they had just cut a cover of “Sign, Seal, Deliver” for something with Sharon Jones, and I just was blown away by how they got that sonic. I mean, it was just so much the real deal.

So sometimes if I’m working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I’ve moved on a little bit from those days.