Kaytranada Quotes

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music.

I was like, 'Okay, cool, I'ma learn how to produce my own beats,' and I stuck to it. Now, it's hard to even take a beat from anyone else.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

'Who Do You Love' was kinda cool to make. I just made the beat; I was self-determined to make beats at the time.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

I write my music.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.

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 think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

You just wake up and make music.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

Composing music is hard work.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

It's not that some songs are for radio and some songs aren't, I'm just making whatever I feel.

I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.