Earl Sweatshirt Quotes

Once I get the track I know what to do with it.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

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.

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

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!

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum machine, and then I'll come back later and try to pop off rhythms to it.

Lensko is a friend of mine with a great talent! The way he progresses his tracks is so unique, just the way he puts everything together is so different from what I usually hear nowadays in the EDM-world.

A lot of people hear things on the radio and try to make their own version of that.

I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into lyrics and a concept from there.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.

You get the beats. You write to them. You go in the studio and lay it down. Hopefully, a song comes out sounding good. If it comes out sounding good, you put it to the side with the rest of the other good ones, and you try to decide which ones you're gonna use on the album.

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

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

You can never really know what a record's going to be.

The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.