Statik Selektah Quotes

I've been making beats since I was, like, 12.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

I started making beats in high school.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.

I started making beats when I was nine in my bedroom and garage.

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't have those for engineering or making beats. I don't know how to use a sampler well. I don't know how to use any of these things.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

When I started making beats in the 7th grade - even through middle school and high school - I admired a lot of Shawty Redd, stuff like that, that real dark, trap sound.

Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.

I'm a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

I became this dorky 15-year-old, in my bedroom all the time with crossed eyes, staring at my computer. It was all drum loops, R&B and pop - silly songs that I hope to God no one ever hears. But that's what got me in to music.

I had eJay, and then I had Acid Pro. I had a crack of both of them, and I would just make little loops, and then I'd hum along to them. I used to spend a lot of time on a computer looking for music and making beats and stuff.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.