Ricky Reed Quotes

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

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

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.

I'm not just a rapper. I like to produce music.

The first musical stuff I worked on was after the tour for 'Swing Lo Magellan' had ended and I didn't really know what else to do. I didn't know what music I would write. I just did work for other people - arranging, producing, writing - and all of that seemed to be in L.A.

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

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

I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

I want to make big-sounding pop records.