PartyNextDoor Quotes

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

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.

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

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

Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats.

When I was a kid, I played drums, and when I first got a 4-track, I would put down drumbeats and then do the rest of the tracks on top.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

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.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

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.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.