Kenny Beats Quotes

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

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

I started making beats in high school.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

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

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

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

I really love crafting albums and thinking of albums as a whole, not just individual songs or singles or just tracks, but a whole entire album.

One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

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

I became this dorky 15-year-old, in my bedroom all the time with crossed eyes, staring at my computer. It was all drum loops, R&B and pop - silly songs that I hope to God no one ever hears. But that's what got me in to music.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

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 love putting the music together. It's like art.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.