Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

I have to make rock records occasionally.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

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

My first album was completed in three months.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.

There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you're in the dubstep category, it's like, how much fatter and more interesting can you make those drops.

To me, making records isn't work.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.

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.

One of my favorite things is producing other artists because, in many ways, it's a lot more freeing than working on your own music.

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

I want nice songs. I don't want to worry about where I have to place songs on a playlist. I'm looking to make genuine, great songs and put them together into albums.

I can produce a rock record; if you want me to produce a street record, I can do that as well.

If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.

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

When I made '1983,' there were a bunch of tracks that were in the early drafts that didn't make it because they just sounded like tracks for rappers, and that's not really the sound I look for when I produce my own albums.

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.

Good music is timeless, whether it's a country song, rock, or R&B.

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.