Bebe Rexha Quotes

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music.

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

A lot of Knxwledge's instrumentals just brought out this tone and swagger that I had played with before but had never really pinpointed before on my Anderson .Paak stuff. But then it just came so easily.

I'm always working on new music.

Today, somewhere in America, there's a kid who's got a laptop and a guitar and a couple of his friends he's putting together to play drums and bass, who's gonna change the way we say things, the way that we dress, the way we view things, the music we hear, everything.

Our job is just to keep making great-sounding music and great performances.

I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In some ways, I have looked to his career as a model for my own.

You're always thinking about making new music.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.

When I did 'Hand Cannot Erase,' I didn't have a specific singer in mind.

There are a lot of classic Goapele tracks that are obviously me. And I'm also just trying to keep evolving and grow as an artist. I've always had a wish list of producers I wanted to work with. I just wait until the feeling is mutual and go into the studio to see what we can come up with.