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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

" When I was cutting hair, I felt like that was my trap. I started selling haircuts. I started selling beats; that's me trapping. So trap music is like hustling music to me. "

" We did 'Bricks' and 'Ridiculous' all in one day. Gucci came here, like, 8 in the morning - we were done 4 the morning the next day. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 you take your music around to your people in the city or your label, and don't nobody like it, but you really like it, and you like, 'Dang, these folks don't hear what I hear.' "

" 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. "

" 'So Icy' is always going to be one of my favorites because this is a song that blew my mind. I was just making beats for the fun of it. I went to the club and heard the song being played, so I asked the DJ to stop playing the song, and the whole club started rapping word for word. "

" 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. "

" Al Nuke is almost like a real brother to me. Our chemistry is crazy because we're like night and day, but we blend so well. "

" Future's the guy, like, where, if I send him some beats while he on the road, and there's a pack of beats that he really like, if there's a new vibe or new wave, he's like, 'Man, keep feeding me more. Feed me more of this every day.' "

" Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that's like, 'Damn, this sounds like my music!' "

" 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. "