Scott Storch Quotes

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

I started making beats in high school.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

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

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

I'm a producer, not just a beatmaker but a producer.

Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

I became this dorky 15-year-old, in my bedroom all the time with crossed eyes, staring at my computer. It was all drum loops, R&B and pop - silly songs that I hope to God no one ever hears. But that's what got me in to music.

I've been working a lot with No I.D. and Hit-Boy.

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.

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.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

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

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.