Vince Staples Quotes

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

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

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

Sometimes I go in and try to write beats, but I just trash 'em, and then the next time I go in, I'll make like six beats - six legit, nice beats. I'm really particular with how it needs to sound.

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

We work pretty fast. I might be working, and I might knock out two, three songs. Quavo might come in two, three himself. Offset might come and do the same.

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

I was 16 when I recorded 'Flashlight.' I produced it, made the beat, wrote it, recorded it.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work. Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

Producing is important because if there is no one making the tunes, there is nothing for the DJs to play, and nothing for the people to dance to.

Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.