Quotes by Zaytoven - Page 2

When you take your music around to your people in the city or your label, and don't nobody like it, but you really like it, and you like, 'Dang, these folks don't hear what I hear.'
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Folks
Label
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I feel like I'm an okay piano player. To the music world, to people that's in the hip-hop culture, they probably look at me like, 'Zaytoven the greatest piano player in the world.' I'm okay.
Zaytoven /
Music Look Culture
Music World
Piano Player
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When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from.
Zaytoven /
Choir
Church
Musical
Preacher
Time Mom Dad
Background
Time Dad Mom
Youngster
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I'm a church musician. I play gospel music; that's what I do. I never had a chance to produce gospel music, and I did a full album with Lecrae that's the number one Christian album. It's super-big for me.
Zaytoven /
Gospel Music
Music Chance Me
Gospel
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When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn't pay attention to nobody else's score. I was just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that's how you create new things.
Zaytoven /
Innocent
New Things
Pay Attention
Score
Movies Me New
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When I actually first moved to Atlanta, I was cutting hair. I was making beats and making music out in the Bay Area. But I came here to make - you know, I had to get my barber license, so I was cutting hair.
Zaytoven /
Atlanta
Bay Area
Beats
Cutting
License
Moved
Actually
Area
Barber
Bay
Came
Making
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Future's the guy, like, where, if I send him some beats while he on the road, and there's a pack of beats that he really like, if there's a new vibe or new wave, he's like, 'Man, keep feeding me more. Feed me more of this every day.'
Zaytoven /
Beats
Guy
Wave
Feed
Every Day
Pack
Send
Vibe
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I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn't like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South.
Zaytoven /
Adjustment
Atlanta
Beats
California
Moved
Sound
West Coast
Music People Sound
Different People
Mob
Producing
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A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an artist that matches well with your music. When that artist gets popular and blowing up, and people start knowing them, that's when they start knowing you.
Zaytoven /
Music
Artist
Blow
Start Your People
Music Start People
Lot
Music Start Your
Music People Your
Gets
Helps
Matches
Producer
Popular
Well
Start
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People looked at me - people still look at me - as 'this is Gucci Mane's producer.' But the music that me and Future put together was so different than what me and Gucci do, it just made people look at the music like, 'Hold on - Zaytoven is the real deal.'
Zaytoven /
Gucci
Producer
Real Deal
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Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci, I don't use as many instruments. I don't play the piano as much because that's not really the style of music that me and Gucci have built.
Zaytoven /
Respect
Gucci
Instrumentation
Music Me People
Respect Music Me
Open
Mode
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You can always know, when it comes to a Gucci Mane or Migos project, there is no such thing of them putting out a project without me being a part of it. These are guys that I'm really close with, and we built a sound together, and we got a certain chemistry.
Zaytoven /
Chemistry
Gucci
Together Always Me
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'Birds of a Feather' is on Netflix, and it did big for me. For me, it was a trial and error thing. I never thought about being an actor. I just felt like, in the music industry now, anything you said can go. So now it's a part of what I do. I make movies now.
Zaytoven /
Music Industry
Trial And Error
Music Movies Me
Error
Feather
Trial
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I almost never pitch myself. Me being an independent producer, never having a manager and never being signed, I pretty much just did my own thing: go out and search for the new talent, and when the new talent blows up, it just kinda brings everyone else to me.
Zaytoven /
Independent
My Own
Talent
Almost
Blows
Brings
Everyone Else
Manager
Producer
Search
Signed
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I've been doing two things my whole life: I've been cuttin' hair, and I've been playing the organ at church. Those two things are what I looked at as my life: this is how I'm gonna make my money, this is how I'm gonna make my living... It helped me to be stable in what I do.
Zaytoven /
Stable
Life Money Me
Organ
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'So Icy' is always going to be one of my favorites because this is a song that blew my mind. I was just making beats for the fun of it. I went to the club and heard the song being played, so I asked the DJ to stop playing the song, and the whole club started rapping word for word.
Zaytoven /
Beats
Icy
Blew
Rapping
Favorites
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When my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that's where I first went from being a musician to making beats and producing. I was 18, 19. It started going pretty good for me out there in California, so I stayed in SF while my parents moved to Georgia.
Zaytoven /
Beats
California
Georgia
Moved
Musician
Retired
San Francisco
Good Dad Me
Francisco
Pretty Good
Producing
San
Sf
Stayed
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Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that's like, 'Damn, this sounds like my music!'
Zaytoven /
Atlanta
Damn
Pay Attention
Sound Of Music
Influenced
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Now, I made the most money I ever made in my life with 'Papers' - I think my first check was like $101,000, my folks couldn't even believe. At this time, this is like 2010, I'm still in the barbershop cutting hair, still being the regular Zaytoven because I felt like after 'Papers,' it wasn't going to get any bigger than that.
Zaytoven /
Bigger
Cutting
Felt
Folks
Papers
Life Time Money
Check
Regular
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My formula is not thinking about what I'm doing; it's about still having fun and making music. I don't go into the studio with a thought pattern or certain goals in mind - sometimes I'll start with drums, other times I'll start with the piano - but it's all done spontaneously, so nothing is premeditated, and nothing takes a long time.
Zaytoven /
Having Fun
Long Time
Time Music Thinking
Drums
Pattern
Studio
Spontaneously
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