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" I like to introduce people to each other, especially in the hip-hop community. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 like V-Nasty a lot, and I know anytime I like an artist and the majority of people really don't like her, I know it's something special. That's the same way I felt about Gucci. "

" The most memorable part of filming 'Finesse,' I'd have to say, was the kissing scene. It was just so odd for me. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "