Danny Brown Quotes

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

You're not going to hit it every single time, and that's why, when I record an album, I do probably close to 50 songs. Each song I record has to get better. If it's not better than the last song that I made, it'll usually linger for a couple of months, and then it'll be put on the backburner, and then there'll be another song that I do, and then it often doesn't make it on the album.

It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

I have so much music to release, but I'm meticulous. I'm like, "You've got to redo that part, redo that part." And people are like, "Just forget that and go ahead with it." But it's all about perfection, about trying to make it as good as you can.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.

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

I'm not the mixtape guy who's gonna put out a new one every month. I'm gonna allow my albums to marinate and resonate and whatever type of 'ates' they can do. I'm gonna let my music grow on them.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

The music I make, it's so hard. I listen to it 100,000 times before it even drops.

I can make a record when I think I have a good one.

I spent a lot of time preparing for releasing music and then not a lot of time releasing music.

With Dr. Dre, he's a perfectionist. A lot of people ask why 'Detox' is taking so long. It's because Dre is somebody that is trying to top what he's done. Will he do it? I don't know if he ever will, but I respect that he's trying to do so. You have to wait for a masterpiece.

Before saying, 'This track is so dope; it's gonna go on the album,' I like to take some time away from it and see how I feel about it in a few months. If it's gonna get released, I gotta love it - it's gonna have my name on it forever.

Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

I've never been one of those 'quantity' guys. I'm not one of those guys who puts out a record every year whether it's any good or not.

Sometimes I'll do something when I'm tired at night, and it'll sound hot. But in the morning, when I'm wide awake, I'll listen again and think it's way off. Nobody else would notice it, but I'm like, I've got to fix that!

Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.

If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.