Manika Quotes

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

The TLC sound! That's what's so awesome - we have our own sound.

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

I cut all my early records in Nashville, so I guess that makes me country. I call it country pop, but my love of the blues is in there, too.

What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things.

I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.

With 'Minecraft,' I've started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the ambient music person, which I never actually thought I was.

Girls Aloud had a style of music, so you come together and work as a group.

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

I've never really considered myself a musician.

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some kind of synthesis, some musical language which will allow us just to write music.

Timbaland is my favorite producer.

As soon as 'Still D.R.E.' starts playing, you know what it is because of the melody. Most of the world's biggest records are less chord-driven. They have that instantly recognizable sound.

We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.

Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats.

I really like the grittiness of early Amon Tobin - I'm a huge fan of his old music, and I tried to borrow from it, not emulate it. I don't love my own original work.

There are entertainers and there are musicians, and I never was an entertainer.

I'm not a visual guy. I'm audio. I'm a musician. I know what I do. I play guitar, and in my category I'm doing O.K.

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

I sing and write a lot of pop, R&B.

It was always my dream to do non-film music, where I'm the voice and face of my composition.