Zitat des Tages von Ryan Lewis:
When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can.
Seattle isn't known for a particular production sound, so that leaves a lot of great producers in Seattle doing kind of their own thing. And I think, for me, I was probably enough removed from hip-hop that my style was even a little bit weirder than that.
I bring up 'The Heist,' and you can almost cut that record down the middle between songs where the beat came first and the words came second, and songs where the words came first and the beat came second. It can start with a vibe, a beat that drives a story, or it can start with a story and then trying to identify the tone to tell that story right.
I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.
When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.
How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you?
Rick Rubin is super intriguing to me because he has become this god producer in completely drastically different genres, which very few people have done.
For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.
I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.
I don't think I would be here in an interview if YouTube wasn't in existence, if social media hadn't been developed, or if these platforms for artists to promote and develop their own careers hadn't become available.
I'm the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don't know where I got it from.
