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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.
I need to help people to create the best work that they can. It's just something a producer should do anyway.
Whenever I am making stuff, I got a thing in the back of my mind: 'Oh, this would be so perfect for' whoever.
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.
We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known.
I'm a big fan of technology; I've been a geek since 1986... and I was spending all my paper money on gadgets.
'I Remember' was produced before the vocal. It's just another body of work in the long list of bodies of work.
Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
Maybe I should disappear and not make anymore music. I mean, I think I'd take it really badly if I got slayed.
As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.
I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.
It's very easy to overproduce stuff and you can forget those first spontaneous ideas are often the best ideas.
The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.
I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.
I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
I really had no aspirations for becoming a DJ, and now I find myself having to campaign to be in the DJ Top 100.
I do get freaked out sometimes. I have kids hop my fence, get into my back yard, and just start screaming at me.
I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it to look and sound.
I just got really desperate to pay rent. It was weird, man. I had to wrestle a fake pussy off a crack head once.
Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.
I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.
I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!
I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed.
There are some ideas that I know I have to try out before I find the right sound, before I find the right melody.
What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America.
Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.
I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow.
Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.
For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.
I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.
I am very strict on what products I want to associate myself with, and I felt that some things were just to make a buck.
In high school, I was that guy who was trying to be cool with everybody, but I never really had a core group of friends.
Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang.
Aiyyo, camoflouge chameleon, ninjas scalin' your building, No time to grab the gun, I already got your wife and children
When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length.
Even if I have a quite strong melody, there are so many possibilities and so many directions that you can take the music.
The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.
I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.
I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.
I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.
When we was making a song called 'Bring Da Ruckus,' we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it.
I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.
Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.