Lil Yachty Quotes

If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

I just make music. If you don't like it, you don't need to buy or listen to it.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

Sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to keep people entertained because I'm just making music for my lifestyle and for my people who live my lifestyle. We forget that there's a world waiting on us.

I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got something I want people to hear because I know they'll like it. They've gotta like it! The songs I've been writing are the sort of things you have to like.

I just want to make music people like.

Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

We're making the music that the people are asking us for.

I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.