Prodigy Quotes

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

I started making beats in high school.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I've been making beats since I was, like, 12.

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.

One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

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

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 always had a fascination about mixing music.

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.

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 would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

You can call me a beat-maker, but I'm a record producer.

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

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

I had eJay, and then I had Acid Pro. I had a crack of both of them, and I would just make little loops, and then I'd hum along to them. I used to spend a lot of time on a computer looking for music and making beats and stuff.

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 always going to do that - record and make music.

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.