Warren G Quotes

We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in.

I like tweaking the studio and wiring things up almost as much as making music, so that's kind of a hobby of mine, in and of itself. I don't like to collect gear that I know I'm not going to use, though.

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.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

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

Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.

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

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!

I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

I still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible.

I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't have those for engineering or making beats. I don't know how to use a sampler well. I don't know how to use any of these things.

My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.