Tay Keith Quotes

I take the purest and hardest forms of music... and come in completely fresh from a production standpoint. It's like hip-hop production, because there's a lot of taking the best parts and a lot of the repetitiveness.

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

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

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

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

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

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

I started making beats in high school.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

When Thug hears a song, he knows how the whole shape of the thing goes. He can nudge the whole frame to the left to make it offbeat and sound how he wants it to sound.

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 love putting the music together. It's like art.

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.

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

I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

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.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.