Jon Landau Song Quotations

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.

Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

We knew exactly what we wanted. We were not in it to do something average. We were not in it to get any particular song on the radio. We were in it to do something great.