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" 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. "

Zaytoven

Innocent

You

New Things

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

" Music is about feeling. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" When my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that's where I first went from being a musician to making beats and producing. I was 18, 19. It started going pretty good for me out there in California, so I stayed in SF while my parents moved to Georgia. "

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Pretty

Parents

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

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Odd

Say

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

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

" 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. "

Zaytoven

Money

My Life

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm a church musician. I play gospel music; that's what I do. I never had a chance to produce gospel music, and I did a full album with Lecrae that's the number one Christian album. It's super-big for me. "

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

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

" 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. "

Zaytoven

Look

Music

" 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. "

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

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Heard

Done

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

Zaytoven

Trap

Seems

" 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. "

" I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Gucci is a guy that promoted me to the fullest. It don't matter where we go. "

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Gucci

Where