Quotes from Zaytoven

I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while.

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.

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.

I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much.

When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'.

Al Nuke is almost like a real brother to me. Our chemistry is crazy because we're like night and day, but we blend so well.

It always surprises me and always makes me proud when I see people that I know I worked with at the house in the basement on TV being superstars.

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.'

Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we feeling. It's sporadic.

If you know Gucci Mane, controversy is always surrounding Gucci.

The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I feel like that's the reason why I'm who I am today.

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.

I know it sounds funny coming from me, 'cause I produced it, but that's one of my favorite bodies of work. That's what 'Beast Mode' was when it came out and still is.

For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career.

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.

I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so good that it sound like Beethoven.

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

Gucci is a guy that promoted me to the fullest. It don't matter where we go.

I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit.

There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on.

I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire.

When you work with Drake, you don't really work with Drake. You send him the song, he rap on it, then y'all done worked together. So it ain't like me and him sitting in the studio.

I approached my career like a rapper. I would go to every open mic, every studio session, bringing my beats. I would almost do exactly what a rapper would do to get on.

'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.