Quotes by Jim Messina

• I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.
• When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.
• We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.
• At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.
• It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.
• My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.