Blake Michael Quotes

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

Making records should be fun.

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 have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

There's actually a lot of producers that I like to listen to.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

At the age of 12, I got free pieces of software in a box of cereal which allowed me to make music, like really early demos, and then I just never looked back.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

I'm a producer, not just a beatmaker but a producer.

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

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!