JaVale McGee Quotes

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

I like making songs and playing '2K.'

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.

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.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

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 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.

Musicians have always adopted Macs.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.