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

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" '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. "

" Trap music, to me, is hustling music. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an artist that matches well with your music. When that artist gets popular and blowing up, and people start knowing them, that's when they start knowing you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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