Obie Trice Quotes

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

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

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I'm a songwriter-singer. I'm very vocal oriented, of course, but songwriting - no matter whether it's for myself or another artist - is of paramount importance to it all.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

Making music is fantastic.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

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

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.