Timbaland Quotes

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.

J Dilla is the top producer of all time, in my book, alongside Timbaland and Pharrell. Then DJ Mustard.

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

I became this dorky 15-year-old, in my bedroom all the time with crossed eyes, staring at my computer. It was all drum loops, R&B and pop - silly songs that I hope to God no one ever hears. But that's what got me in to music.

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

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

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

I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

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

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.

If you know Down South production, Roland 808 is in almost everything.

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.

I started making beats when I was 13.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

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

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 'cause I like the way the drums sound.

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

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

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 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.

I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.