Kenny Beats Quotes

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.

Salim-Sulaiman have always been my favourite. It's just an absolute pleasure working with them, and there's always something new you get to learn just by sitting in their studio and absorbing all that's happening around you.

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

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

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

I'm thinking about a few weeks in Montreal to work with a producer I met there.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.