Seinabo Sey Quotes

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I think remixes give songs more life.

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.

The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.

I love female singer-songwriters!

I often haven't heard the music since I've recorded it. I don't listen to it. When I do hear it, like at someone's house, I'll listen. I'm probably the most pleased with the stuff I did with New Grass Revival.

I'm not just a remix guy.

It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.

I actually admire the Indian artiste 'Lost Stories.' He made a remix of my song 'Faded.' That is really good and cool because it actually represented Indian music. I just loved the song; it so unique.

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.

I dunno - it's like, again, Juice was super big for me in terms of inspiration, and I learned a lot from him in terms of his recording process and stuff like that.

My friends started making music, and then I started making covers because I was like, 'I don't have anything to write, but I like music.' So I would just cover Frank Ocean songs.

I don't know, whenever someone was like, 'Yeah, I'm going to the studio,' I just went with them. And I started recording.

I never really thought of music as a particularly social thing. I experienced music through recordings as opposed to concerts. It just makes you think about the way things are put together, the way things are written as opposed to the showbusiness of something onstage, so no regrets there.