T-Pain Quotes

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

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

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

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.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.

I could blow up from making a beat or I could blow up from making a song.

We make songs like a factory and put them out.

I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.

In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return - a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.

For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be famous. I was learning a lot of valuable tools about structure and how to articulate. I was getting really good at that.