Quotes About Music

I love '80s beats; everyone does.

I started making beats when I was 13.

In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.

Lyrics over some nice beats - that's what the people want from us.

It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make beats, sing... And I have never made less music than when being a musician became my job.

A lot of people have been sending me beats, I've just been getting it in.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

Not anyone can rap to my beats.

I pick simple beats because I need space for me to work.

I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have a conversation in my phone I could scroll through, I'm not making music.

Man, Dr. Dre just inspired me so much. Just him personally, outside of music, too. You know, him doing the whole Beats thing... People like him, they set the bar high for me to set the bar even higher, you know? It's more than just music when it comes to building a foundation and building your empire.

I'm always making beats, and when I can hear Ezra singing on one of them in my head, I send it to him. That's one of the ways that we've always worked together.

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

With me and Timbaland, we would always be at the studio, but working separately. He would be doing his thing with the beats and I would be doing my thing writing and then we would both come together and say 'OK, you add this to it and I'll add that to it.'

I started making beats in high school.

I actually started making beats first and that was before 2010. I think I was like 14. They were really bad. I used to sample like Arabic music for some reason.

When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

I just love new, beautiful music.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

One of the beautiful things about music is it gives you an opportunity to learn how to tell the truth, and it's a life-long learning process.

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to go out there.