Tay Keith Quotes

I'm a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I made my first mix tape when I was 14.

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

I can operate in half-a-song format.

When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.

Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was recorded, and the medium adjusted.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.

When I started making beats in the 7th grade - even through middle school and high school - I admired a lot of Shawty Redd, stuff like that, that real dark, trap sound.

Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

I not only composed music for my albums but also for the film 'Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh.'

On 'PG-13,' the way I wrote that is that I would get my tracks ahead of time and then I would write for them, and I wrote fairly quickly.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that.

I still find time to record during the season. Offseason, I record every day until 7 A.M. - all night.

I started my whole career on Soundcloud and YouTube and was always looking for recourses to make music.

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.

I started making beats in high school.