Freddie Gibbs Quotes

I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do a melody, and then we'll go back and do it.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

Composing music is hard work.

I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.

I feel like guys, girls, whatever it is, you just come out hoping to make the best record. You just try to have a conversation and just create what you've talked about. Whatever you find to fit the beat at the time, what the person is down for, wherever the beat takes you towards.

I just hear a beat and start mumbling words. I just hear sounds and rhythms, and it just kind of comes intuitively. Formatting a song, figuring out a flow, how I respond to the beat.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song.

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.