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When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.

I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.