Scott Storch Quotes

I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

I was doing music tech as a subject and learned how to use Logic Pro and that's when I kind of had a platform to put my ideas on. It all just went from there.

I started making beats when I was nine in my bedroom and garage.

The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I've been making beats since I was, like, 12.

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.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum machine, and then I'll come back later and try to pop off rhythms to it.

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 love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

A lot of people hear things on the radio and try to make their own version of that.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.

I started making beats in high school.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

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

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.