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" I almost never pitch myself. Me being an independent producer, never having a manager and never being signed, I pretty much just did my own thing: go out and search for the new talent, and when the new talent blows up, it just kinda brings everyone else to me. "

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" I tell people that it's one thing to have the gift and the talent and work hard but another thing to have the favor of God in making it all work, and I think all those are factors. "

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" 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. "

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

" Now, I made the most money I ever made in my life with 'Papers' - I think my first check was like $101,000, my folks couldn't even believe. At this time, this is like 2010, I'm still in the barbershop cutting hair, still being the regular Zaytoven because I felt like after 'Papers,' it wasn't going to get any bigger than that. "

" 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. "

" When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created some art together. "

" When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future's not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven's not making no beats for nobody but Future. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" What's so crazy is I always looked at Jay Z and guys on the caliber of Jay Z like they just the big dogs. I didn't think they listen to my music or even know who I am. "

" 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. "

" I feel like I'm an okay piano player. To the music world, to people that's in the hip-hop culture, they probably look at me like, 'Zaytoven the greatest piano player in the world.' I'm okay. "

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" When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from. "

" 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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" I can show these folks I can do more than just the 'trap.' But what I realized is the trap is what they really recognize me for - that's what they want to hear. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You can always know, when it comes to a Gucci Mane or Migos project, there is no such thing of them putting out a project without me being a part of it. These are guys that I'm really close with, and we built a sound together, and we got a certain chemistry. "

" The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it. "

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

" 'Birds of a Feather' is on Netflix, and it did big for me. For me, it was a trial and error thing. I never thought about being an actor. I just felt like, in the music industry now, anything you said can go. So now it's a part of what I do. I make movies now. "

" 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. "