Sheck Wes Quotes

It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

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

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

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

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.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

Make your own music. It can be done.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

You just wake up and make music.

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

When it comes to making a song, whatever the beat tells me to do, I do.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

People will go through 50 beats from a producer and pick the best ones, go make a song on that beat. That's cool, but someone coming to me and hearing what I've been working on, picking out pieces of all of that, and then adding some of their own ideas is way more exciting.

I worked on 'Cadillactica' with the mind to not sample as much and focus on creativity.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.