Zaytoven Quotes

"Music is about feeling."

"It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation."

"I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church."

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

"I play the piano, but I'm not classically trained."

"When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats."

"I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot."

"In Atlanta, I went to barber school. That's how I met everyone I know in Atlanta, by cutting hair."

"If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care."

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

"If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it."

"When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast."

"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."

"I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out."

"Trap music, to me, is hustling music."

"When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together."

"I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created."

"Trap is being added to everything. It seems like every genre wants that bit of trap to what they're doing."

"Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all."

"To me, my studio is my trap house. That's where I trap out of; that's where I hustle. That's where I make my money."

"When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art."

"You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting."

"I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has."

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

"When I was in high school, the girls used to tell me I looked like Usher, so to be doing a song with Usher was mind-blowing."