Lamont Dozier
Lamont Dozier
Lamont Herbert Dozieris an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has co-written and produced 14 US Billboard #1 hits and 4 number ones in the UK...
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth16 June 1941
CityDetroit, MI
eye happening love observant people three
All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world,
attitude hungry pulled voice
She pulled it off, ... It was her voice and that take-no-prisoners attitude when she's onstage, she was just out there, hungry to be the star.
fearful fussy hug invent knew slide somewhat
He was fussy and very childlike. He'd be a handful, ... He'd have you so angry, but then he'd come up and hug you. He was just aggravated and somewhat fearful about the key. But we knew if we made him stretch, he'd have to invent something for the performance, slide off into a little falsetto, and it just worked.
james playing ten
You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.
cash caught corny girlfriend hear name situation songs stop trying
A girlfriend had caught me in a compromising situation with another girl, ... In trying to defuse the situation, I said 'please, stop in the name of love,' as corny as that may sound. Then I said 'Wow, did you hear that cash register? That's how things happen, songs come out of nowhere.
gave school toward
She put it up on the school bulletin board, and that gave me such a jump-start toward writing more things,
decided finally heart musical negative pushed rid stuff trying type
We pushed back a lot of the old things, trying to get rid of the negative stuff and look at this as a new day, a refreshing, reinventing type of thing, ... Doing a musical is something that's been in my heart for years. We finally decided to do it together.
moving thinking piano
I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.
style research young-writers
Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.