Words matter. These are the best Ricky Reed Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, ‘Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.’
I can never think about, ‘Is this going to sell? Is this going to work on radio?’ I just have to get in the zone where I’m like, ‘Do I love this, or do I not love this?’ Essentially it all comes down to that.
I believe that I am one of the greats of this generation.
I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.
I have a short attention span. And when I’m in the middle of one thing, I’m then drawn to the next thing.
I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I’m nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.
I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.
Collaborating with someone on music is the same way you’d go about hanging out. You have to listen more than you talk.
Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.
When I started trying to produce records for other people, one of the first tracks I wrote and produced was sort of a ‘Kelly Clarkson circa 2008,’ kind of big-brassy, guitar-pop, rock song. I was like, ‘I can do this. I can make pop songs.’ It was bad.
My career has been one long love letter to California as a whole, top to bottom.
Los Angeles is a huge, great diverse place, but I had to find the version that worked for me. I am lucky I did because I probably wouldn’t be where I am had I not.
A lot of people from the Bay, especially musicians, feel like northern California is not the place where everything’s poppin’ off and not quite on the cutting edge artistically as New York or L.A. People from the Bay feel like they have something to prove, and I always love feeling like I have something to prove.
A lot of what we do in the studio on a day-to-day basis is you try to cast a line as far out as you can out into unknown waters and reel it back in, cut out stuff that isn’t working, cut out stuff that isn’t connecting to people.
Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floor. All of the pieces to work with are right there. A floor full of Legos is full of possibilities.
