Statik Selektah Quotes

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.

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

If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.

I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.

I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.

I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.

I feel like Turbo helped me grow. It's the way we just lock in. His mind is set to where he'll start making beats to my flow and my sound. He's not an engineer, but he knows how to record.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.

With me and YG, he could rap a hook, and I could make a beat around it. Ten minutes, we done.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.