Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Dukes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian producer Frank Dukes.

Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Adam King Feeney, better known by his former stage name Frank Dukes, is a Canadian record producer, songwriter, and former DJ. A prolific producer, he has worked with artists including Camila Cabello, Post Malone and The Weeknd. After using the moniker for twenty years, in November 2021, he announced his retirement as Frank Dukes to pursue his own music and art as Ging.

Canadian - Producer | Born: September 12, 1983

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Frank Dukes

I'm just at home all the time wearing jogging pants.

Frank Dukes

Kanye is producing in the true sense of the word. 'Real Friends' was an idea started by me and Boi-1da. We passed it off to Kanye, and Kanye kind of stripped it down and had Havoc add some drums to it. Kanye had the vision. That's really true-school production.

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I totally embrace the different transformations we've seen in hip-hop throughout the years.

Frank Dukes

I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.

Frank Dukes

You never know what can happen if you get sampled by the biggest artist in the world.

Frank Dukes

In a band everyone plays their part, and I look at production the same way.

Frank Dukes

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.

Frank Dukes

I come from the school of hip-hop where you just buy records and sample records all the time. Doing that is tough sometimes, because if you get a placement on a major record, your record could get shelved because of clearance issues.

Frank Dukes

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

Frank Dukes

You can't just plug your guitar in your computer and make it sound like an old record.

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The thread that ties together everything I love is honesty in the intention.

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I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that it brings people together, levels the playing field and opens people up.

Frank Dukes

I might find out about a songwriter and start following them on Instagram. Within a day, we might be hanging out and feeling out whether we can work together.

Frank Dukes

Once '0 to 100' happened, it sort of spun this chain reaction - really the first big record that I was a part of. It was a big, life-changing thing for me.

Frank Dukes

I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.

Frank Dukes

If you can make the best music ever but it requires bringing in a few different perspectives, I'd rather make the best music ever.

Frank Dukes

Nirvana, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, all those bands, at their core, are just really incredible pop music and I think a lot of that stuff has deeply affected the way I approach music.

Frank Dukes

I make so many ideas, it's impossible to finish every single one.

Frank Dukes

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.

Frank Dukes

Whether it's a huge hit or sold five copies, as long artistically and creatively I can stand by what I did, then I'll feel successful.

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As I change and grow, different things excite me and I just follow where that leads me.

Frank Dukes

I look at the big picture and try not to create with ego.

Frank Dukes

I know people who have sampled gospel music, and then they go to clear the sample, and it's like, 'You can't take the Lord's music and make this.'

Frank Dukes

I try to create something that draws you in without overthinking it. Something that resonates with you automatically that you don't have to think about. That's what the best pop is about: Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Nirvana - these guys made some of the most authentic and popular music.

Frank Dukes

I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.

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I love the process of collaboration... to me it just makes sense.

Frank Dukes

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other part of development is I will work with my friends who are just some of the best producers in the world, give them an idea.

Frank Dukes

When you're producing, you're really just making a series of decisions.

Frank Dukes

The Kingsway Music Library was sort of a byproduct of all the creation I was doing. As creators, we kind of just create blindly sometimes and I couldn't physically see every idea through, so I created this ecosystem where I made the ideas available to people to download, to sample and to put their own twist on it.

Frank Dukes

I wanted to be a great producer so I studied great hip-hop producers, but also stuff beyond that: Phil Spector, David Axelrod, Gamble and Huff. They're equally as influential to me as Dilla, Premier, and Pete Rock.

Frank Dukes

I'm not one for the limelight I suppose.

Frank Dukes

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

Frank Dukes

I'm definitely interested by a lot of things outside of music - technology, film, quantum physics - and I'm realizing that I can put my creativity into anything I kind of choose to.

Frank Dukes

I love music with real instruments. I'm not one of those guys that's a purist about analog vs. digital, but I love the analog approach. Sonically, I connect to that.

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Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Dukes

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