67 Quotes by Adrian Younge

I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.

Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.

Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.

My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio.

Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.

We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.

As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.