Joyner Lucas Quotes

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

You never know how they're going to play out, but 'Pork and Beans' definitely had the same vibe as the 'Buddy Holly' video in that you just knew it was going to work.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

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

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

I don't know if I want her to sing it with us, but I'm curious to what type of song Taylor Swift would write for us. I'm curious to see what kind of pen she would write for TLC. Or like an Adam Levine. Somebody like that. They're phenomenal writers.

Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are.

I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.

When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.

'Trouble Maker' was a project that worked whenever a song that fit the concept came in.

On 'PG-13,' the way I wrote that is that I would get my tracks ahead of time and then I would write for them, and I wrote fairly quickly.

Once a composition is complete I sing the track and send it to the director. He sometimes suggests I record them in my voice, and I go ahead.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

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'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

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

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.