Producing music Quotes

I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

I thought I was going to be YG's DJ forever. I didn't plan on producing; I just picked up producing and got good at it.

I grew up producing hip-hop music, actually. I was producing for my friends, who were all rappers in upstate New York, where I'm from. But in the eighth grade, we had this songwriting contest in our school, and I got really excited about it and actually won. After that, I just kept making music forever.

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 think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.

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.

I love spending time in England, whether it's for writing, producing, or seeing my parents and siblings.

It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.

Once I get the track I know what to do with it.

I played drums since I was 6 years old. And then I got into producing music when I was about 16 or 17. Somebody showed me FL Studios, the program. My beats were bad at first, but then eventually they started to get good.