Zaytoven Quotes

I actually have two songs I did with Nicki Minaj. We didn't even plan on doing it that way, but it was an organic connection and just a really solid connection she and I had musically.

Ne-Yo and I are great friends and we've worked on a bunch of stuff together back in the day.

I instinctively felt Pancham and Gulzarbhai were meant to make music together.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

The relationship between the models and the musical performers is very important.

The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.

Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.

Having Ghost and Raekwon together on multiple tracks is almost like cheating because they fit so well together. Their chemistry is undeniable, and they clearly make each other better.

I've worked with incredible producers in the past, but when me and El-P got in a room, there was no way I was going to let off his head because not only was he one of the greatest producers I heard, he was one of the illest rappers I had ever heard.

We all came to the conclusion that we have an undeniable chemistry musically, that we might not ever find again. The mix of friction and camaraderie channels good songs, performances and laughs.

Me and Kanye work awesome together. He's a creative man, I'm a creative man, we put our ideas together, it's like the perfect formula.

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. As far as my own music career - you could liken my chemistry with Timbaland to Marty Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That's like my brother. He's really cool.

In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.

I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.

Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.