DJ Khaled Quotes

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

Instead of giving all your best tracks to artists, producers now have the opportunity where we can take our favorite beats we make and put our favorite artists on them and release fun songs for people to listen to.

I would love for Radiohead to give me a call and say, 'Hey, kid, we wanna see what it's like working with you. We want you to produce our next record.'

I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige.

I've never gone to a singer with a song and said 'why don't you try this?' or tried to get a record like that. My head just wasn't there.

Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it doesn't matter the marketing or how many times you are on TV; you can only polish it so much.

I got to meet Kanye West because we were shopping my artist deal, and I was interested in his label. When I met him, I played him all the records I had. He introduced me to Rihanna, and she recorded and cut some of those records.

I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.