Zaytoven Quotes

Zaytoven

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 12, 1980

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

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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.

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

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I'm always up for the challenge of doing more and doing different things. I love being inspired like a new producer all over again.

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My formula is not thinking about what I'm doing; it's about still having fun and making music. I don't go into the studio with a thought pattern or certain goals in mind - sometimes I'll start with drums, other times I'll start with the piano - but it's all done spontaneously, so nothing is premeditated, and nothing takes a long time.

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Music is about feeling.

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I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special.

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

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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.

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

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People looked at me - people still look at me - as 'this is Gucci Mane's producer.' But the music that me and Future put together was so different than what me and Gucci do, it just made people look at the music like, 'Hold on - Zaytoven is the real deal.'

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Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci, I don't use as many instruments. I don't play the piano as much because that's not really the style of music that me and Gucci have built.

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Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that's due to 'Beast Mode.'

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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