Labrinth Quotes

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

I got songs; I just never release them. I don't know why. A lot of people say I need to put it out. I guess I haven't made it my focus.

I am a perfectionist and the only reason why I started producing is because I didn't want to argue with a producer.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

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.

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

I rarely like the music I make. It's like nothing's good enough. I just stay in my head, waiting on the next best beat, so I can do something better than what I did.

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

I'm a perfectionist. I want everything done right. When it's not done right, I'm not happy.

Artists tend to get this thing called demo-itis, and I'm extremely guilty of that.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

When you're a producer on top of that, just havin' a beat that's hot is not enough. Now you know your sound, 'cause you've been workin' on your sound for so long, and now you're extra picky. You might do a beat that's ill, that the average rapper would pay big money to get on, but you don't wanna do it because you're like, "Ehhh... it's not what I'm looking for, it's not what I'm goin' for." So you're extra picky.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.

I try to be a perfectionist.

I was always critiquing my work. I let everybody else around - producers, directors, other actors - they give the nod of approval or the praise. Because I tried to always bring the best, so even if they were happy with it, I was still scrutinizing it.

I've always been a really hard critic of everything I do.

I'm a very tough critic of my guitar-playing. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore.

I don't like the word 'perfectionist,' because it's self-flattering. It's tooting your own horn and implies that you actually can achieve perfection. I prefer 'particularist.'

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!

I'm a big perfectionist, and I like to make sure everything 120 percent, from the production to the vocal performance to the lyrics, the melody and everything.

I've always been really hard on myself. If I didn't book a job, I would cry.