DJ Khaled Quotes

I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I'll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

You're always thinking about making new music.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.

I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

I write by myself and then deliver the song. Everybody knows, 'Leave Ester alone when she's in her zone.' Give me a studio and the tracks, and I'll call you when the doctor is done.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.