Sean Combs Quotes

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

When I'm in the studio, I stay in the studio, like, sometimes 20 hours out the day.

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.

I remember when I did 'Live SheckWes, Die SheckWes,' and when I did 'Mo Bamba,' I one-taked those because it came from my heart.

I'm never not in the studio creating; it's like my second home.

We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.

I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

One day it was that I wanted to go make a movie with my kid and then another day it was that I wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and another day it was that I wanted to sit in the studio and figure something out. All those things manifested themselves into what the TV show was.

I think it's really important to not talk about how you're going to release something until you've finished it. People are like, "What are we going to make? What are we going to do with it?" and it's just like, "I don't know, we're just making music. Then we'll talk." You can't always write something you're happy with; you can't force it.

The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.

That's the worst and best thing about being in the studio, feeling completely lost and not knowing how to put the final touch on something. But once you find it, there's nothing like that feeling.

I could probably have an idea one day and then go into the studio and really wanna write about just that idea that I have in mind. Or it can vary with just a simple beat and I just do a bunch of melodies on the track that inspire me.

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.