Quotes by Ryan Lewis - Page 1

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Aids
Arms
Ribbons
Tattooed
Arm
Ribbon
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The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Music Industry
Transforming
Fairly
Music Music Industry Industry
Rapidly
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Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Long
Really Long
Song
Time Long Long Time
Really Long Time
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I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Centre
Spotlight
Wired
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There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Beats
Doors
Want
Door
Open Door
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I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Philosophy
Photography
Religious
Cultural
Studies
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The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.
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Almost Everything
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I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Beats
Genuine
Me Better Trying
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How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you?
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Distracting
Join
Platform
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When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Artist
Infrastructure
Movement
Recognition
Typical
Artists
Associated
Cultural
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I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Graduates
Interesting
Thinking
Graduate
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Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Northwest
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For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Blessing
Projects
Use
Awesome
Blessings
Project
Hop
Personally
Pull
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I'm the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don't know where I got it from.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Extended Family
Extended
Instrument
Sings
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Rick Rubin is super intriguing to me because he has become this god producer in completely drastically different genres, which very few people have done.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Different Genres
Intriguing
God Done Me
God Me People
Drastically
Few People
Genres
Producer
Rick
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The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Bullying
Children
Thinking
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Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Kids
Age
Hip Hop
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You have no idea what you're passionate about until you give it a shot. If I hadn't been given a guitar or a camera or whatever, I'd be doing something different.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
No Idea
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In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Sister
Mom
Birth
Blood
Delivery
Hiv
Older Sister
Due
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Any time we have the opportunity to play in a more intimate room, there's such a huge aspect of our set just built for that. And beyond that, we just love being that close to our fans.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Aspect
Intimate
Love Time Opportunity
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Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Kids
Choices
Parent
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I don't think I would be here in an interview if YouTube wasn't in existence, if social media hadn't been developed, or if these platforms for artists to promote and develop their own careers hadn't become available.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Available
Careers
Platforms
Social Media
Youtube
Developed
Interview
Promote
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I would love to be one of the few artists that hits a point of success and can go back into the studio and make another album that matters and relates to people and not go back in and be super tainted by this whole thing.
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Tainted
Relates
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I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Innovative
Throwing
Catch
Same Thing
Wanting
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Seattle isn't known for a particular production sound, so that leaves a lot of great producers in Seattle doing kind of their own thing. And I think, for me, I was probably enough removed from hip-hop that my style was even a little bit weirder than that.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Seattle
Great Me Style
Leaves
Weirder
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I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Creativity
Drinking
Writing
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I bring up 'The Heist,' and you can almost cut that record down the middle between songs where the beat came first and the words came second, and songs where the words came first and the beat came second. It can start with a vibe, a beat that drives a story, or it can start with a story and then trying to identify the tone to tell that story right.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Middle
Tone
Beat
Bring
Cut
Drives
Identify
Record
Second
Vibe
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