Tay Keith Quotes

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

My journey began when I found out about YouTube on how do you make music, and from that, people started explaining me how I had to do it.

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

Musicians have always adopted Macs.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

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.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

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

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

At the age of 12, I got free pieces of software in a box of cereal which allowed me to make music, like really early demos, and then I just never looked back.

When I got to the NBA, I got a Macbook, and the first thing I did was buy Logic.