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" If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

Working Together

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

" Future is a real workaholic, so he's the type of guy that's gonna do more than enough songs to make sure you got everything you need. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've been doing two things my whole life: I've been cuttin' hair, and I've been playing the organ at church. Those two things are what I looked at as my life: this is how I'm gonna make my money, this is how I'm gonna make my living... It helped me to be stable in what I do. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "