Top 63 Quotes & Sayings by Madlib
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Madlib.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
The iPad is the greatest thing as far as kids.
I don't worry about collaborating. Whatever happens, happens.
My computer? I never use a computer. It's too easy.
As far as hip hop, I ain't even gonna front, it was 'Rapper's Delight.' That was the first thing I heard where I was like, 'Whoa.' You take that beat and do something over it. I started collecting records after that, old records.
I listen to a lot of different things. I'll be listening to prog rock, then the next couple of hours - Indian.
I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.
Prince Paul's one of my teachers. He's always been one of my main inspirations as far as interludes go and getting a little quirky at times.
It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.
You have to work how you work.
Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.
I get bored with music so I try to listen to things in different types of genre to see what's possible.
I used to memorize music when I was real young. Schoolwork, not so much. But music I could remember.
I've got about three or four rooms of records, and two rooms of instruments.
I used to drink straight Hennessy, but I started drinking wine and champagne. It's easier to tour like that.
I'm usually bored with both gangsta rappers and underground ones, too.
I'm a hermit, people rarely see me.
If I'm really hyped to do something, I can do most of an album in a day.
My family brainwashed me, like I'm brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste.
I'm a jokester, man.
Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more soulful.
I've always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I've always been associated with that because I'm from the West Coast.
My whole thing is that I make music regardless. Regardless of everything around me, I'll always make music.
I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians.
I'm all about the music.
I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.
I love zebras.
My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.
I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.
Some people think I'm crazy, but I'm just a normal dude that loves music.
I don't have beef with anybody.
I don't do selfies.
Not anyone can rap to my beats.
I think a lot of guys are influenced by 'Pinata.' I fathered a lot of styles off that album.
I grew up on Public Enemy, which had a message with great music behind it.
Sometimes I will slow down the beat for one bar on purpose, just to see if the rapper can adapt his flow and stay on beat.
There were a certain amount of people that were down with me, and we would just sit in the room and make music.
I don't talk in front of people.
Basically my whole life is music, that's all I do 24-7.
I do it for myself and for like-minded people. Half the time I don't know why I make what I do. I'd do this if no one was listening. I'm stuck. I've got the curse.
I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.
As long as I'm living decent, then I'm cool.
I'm a positive dude.
I didn't want to put out 'The Unseen' because I thought I would be criticized. I thought everyone would think the sped-up vocals were a gimmick. I had to be convinced to put it out.
Past, present, and future is where I'm at.
I'm a laid back dude, I don't really get excited.
I'm a man of few words.
I like my space.
I'm constantly buying records.
People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.
The equipment doesn't matter, it's the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.
I don't like drama in my life, but I like reading about it.
I search for records that I've found on YouTube. If I can't get the record it doesn't matter to me, I'll bump the YouTube rip.
If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.
I guess I only work with versatile rappers, chameleons like Guilty Simpson, J Dilla, and Doom.
I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new artists. I want to do everything from rock, to jazz, to electronic, to noise records and movie sound tracks. Both sampled and original music.
As a kid, I was trying to copy what I heard. Namely, I was just listening to producers I looked up to, like 45 King and Marley Marl, and trying to do what they were doing.
Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all of them, they'd come through.
I like white wine, Riesling.
I try to challenge my ears. I get bored easily.
Interviews are my least favorite thing to do.
Related Authors
Ani DiFranco Quotes
American
Musician
Bob Dylan Quotes
American
Musician
Brian Eno Quotes
British
Musician
Bruce Springsteen Quotes
American
Musician
David Bowie Quotes
English
Musician
Drake Quotes
Canadian
Musician
Elton John Quotes
English
Musician
George Harrison Quotes
British
Musician
Henry Rollins Quotes
American
Musician
John Lennon Quotes
English
Musician
Madonna Ciccone Quotes
American
Musician
Moby Quotes
American
Musician
Nicki Minaj Quotes
American
Musician
Patti Smith Quotes
American
Musician
Thom Yorke Quotes
English
Musician
Tori Amos Quotes
American
Musician