Karen Mason famous quotes

I have to admit that I am not great at selecting music for CDs! I have a few personal favorites, and then I let my producer take it from there!
-- Karen Mason

#Cds #Producers

Why sing music that you get to choose that isn't personal to you? That is the great thing about what I do.
-- Karen Mason

#Great Things

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!
-- Karen Mason

#Song #People #Challenges

I love singing for people who are loving what I am doing.
-- Karen Mason

#People #Singing

Big halls allow me to be a little "larger" and the challenge is make the show feel intimate.
-- Karen Mason

#Challenges #Littles #Intimate

Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.
-- Karen Mason

#Space #Challenges #Pieces

I wanted to be a truck driver. I love driving long distances!!!
-- Karen Mason

#Distance #Long #Driving

I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill.
-- Karen Mason

#Thrill #Jazz #Carnegie

The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.

A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.

With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion...

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?