Jamie Waylett Quotes

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

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

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 used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.

When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in a small room with my computer running GarageBand, which is always set to record.

I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

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.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

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 ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night.

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

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

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.

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 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.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

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.