Freddie Gibbs Quotes

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

My goal is a Grammy so my songs will have to be good.

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.

I've always wanted to make a record.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I plan on making a lot more records, and hopefully one of them will be Grammy worthy.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

I think somewhere along the way I realized, 'O.K., no one's gonna care about a chubby Jewish dude rapping.' I realized I'd be better behind the scenes.

When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

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