Big K.R.I.T. Quotes

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Composing music is hard work.

I write my music.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

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

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

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.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I like to oversee what I do, so I have a hand in writing my songs. I also have people there to help me with my vision.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

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 wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.