Quotes by Benny Blanco - Page 1

Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.
Benny Blanco /
Crammed
Pop Songs
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I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.'
Benny Blanco /
Waiting
Walmart
Time I Am Day
Time Waiting I Am
For The Day
Shift
They Say
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Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.
Benny Blanco /
Larry
David
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I might be eating something, and the bag opens in a cool way, and I'm like, 'I wanna put that in the song.'
Benny Blanco /
Wanna
Bag
Opens
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I'm not a huge L.A. fan, but I go there for the winter every year. We usually rent a house and have massive house parties.
Benny Blanco /
Massive
Winter
Parties
Rent
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Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio.
Benny Blanco /
Real Person
Curtain
Peel
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When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens, I never write a hit song.
Benny Blanco /
Every Time
Gotta
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Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.
Benny Blanco /
Be Different
Drums
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I think somewhere along the way I realized, 'O.K., no one's gonna care about a chubby Jewish dude rapping.' I realized I'd be better behind the scenes.
Benny Blanco /
Jewish
Chubby
Dude
Rapping
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I don't want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel happy and get to share it with people.
Benny Blanco /
Alone Music Me
Depressed
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I used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into the other one until I had six tracks. It was unlistenable!
Benny Blanco /
Boxes
Box
Boom
Link
Tracks
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I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills the bacteria and makes them not smell anymore.
Benny Blanco /
Bacteria
Freezer
Japan
Jeans
Smell
Wash
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Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.
Benny Blanco /
Life Experience
Real Life
Life Time Experience
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I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.
Benny Blanco /
Gucci
Hundred
Pop Music
Single
Adele
Music Day Listening
Every Single Thing
Ma
Single Thing
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I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.
Benny Blanco /
Guitarist
Notice
Piano Player
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Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'
Benny Blanco /
Catchy
Relate
Seconds
Yeah
Listener
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I can be at my house sitting there making music alone, and every single time I've ever done that the first thing I do when I'm done, no matter if it's 4 in the morning... I literally just pick up my phone and I call someone.
Benny Blanco /
Phone
Every Single Time
First Thing
Literally
Single Time
The First Thing
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I just want to sound different than everyone else. I don't care if it sounds bad. I just want people to be like, 'Yo, that dude Benny was different.' Even if it sounds awful, at least they can't say, 'Oh well, I've heard that before.'
Benny Blanco /
Don't Care
Benny
Dude
Everyone Else
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In hip hop, it's a lot more about lacing a hot track. I start it, I help mix it, I help write it, I help produce it, I cut the person's vocals. I'm involved from the beginning to the end of a song. I'm not just giving someone a beat, you know?
Benny Blanco /
Giving
Involved
Produce
Track
Beat
Beginning
Cut
Hip
Hop
Mix
Vocals
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Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'
Benny Blanco /
Republic
Work Future Time
Send
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My studio's always in my house. I want to wake up and be like, 'You know I'm gonna make music today in my underwear. You know what, I'm gonna be in my pajamas. You know what, I'm actually just gonna stay inside for the next three days so I can make music.'
Benny Blanco /
Pajamas
Underwear
Wake Up
Wake
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Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive type of guy. I try to put my female hat on and think how a female would think. If I'm watching 'The Notebook,' I'm definitely gonna cry. I cried during 'E.T.' too.
Benny Blanco /
Notebook
Cried
Cry
Female
Point Of View
Sensitive
Yeah
Hat
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Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
Benny Blanco /
Beats
Borrowing
Heard
Mimicking
Music Start People
Styles
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I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,' you know, owner of Atlantic, and they'd say, 'Right away,' and then I'd be like, 'Please just listen to my demo tape!'
Benny Blanco /
Attorney
Cold
Labels
Please
Tape
Atlantic
Craig
Demo
Pretend
Owner
Jay-Z
Right Away
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I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.
Benny Blanco /
Vegas
Deciding
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When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There's something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I'll let them do it. I'm just here to fit in and see where it goes.
Benny Blanco /
Fit
Meant To Be
Song
Writing
Music Me Better
Music Me Song
Brings
Meant
Music Better Me
Goes
Shared
Vibe
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Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work through that wall. But if you know something is there, you've gotta just keep doing it until you get it right. So, I'll work on a song for three months if I have to, to get it right.
Benny Blanco /
Wall
Gotta
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I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.A. or somewhere where we have to rent a car, I'll hear my songs. Sometimes I hear them when I'm in stores, and I'm still like a little kid in a candy shop: 'Oh my God, that's my song!' I don't know how that could ever get old.
Benny Blanco /
Car
Candy
License
Little Kid
Radio
Stores
Somewhere
Oh
Cause
Driver
Hear
Oh My God
Shop
Rent
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I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south a little bit, it's like, 'You wanna play ping-pong or foosball?' Or, 'You wanna go grab somethin' to eat?' And then you just like talk to them and relax them and get them comfortable and get yourself comfortable.
Benny Blanco /
Comfortable
Little Bit
Relax
Wanna
Grab
Notice
Studio
Table
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