Top 44 Scott Storch Quotes

I’m not the guy trying to be all up in the videos and be a celebrity. I feel like I’m going to lose a certain amount of my privacy if I do that.

I spend six to seven days a week in the studio making records. I don’t have time to go do a lot of things that you have to play the political game to get recognition with the Grammy crew.

I’m crossing the EDM barrier.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

Because I am white, I feel like certain opportunities were thrown to me through all of the people from the white community who prey on hip-hop culture.

I’m from New York. I was born in Long Island.

Biggie was to me the guy who was the best at painting the picture and making you visualize something, Pac was the best poet, and I feel like Jay Z is all of the above. Then Rick Ross is just, every line he spits is just perfect, and he’s one of my favorite MCs of all time.

It’s not always about working with the hottest artist. I sometimes go for challenges although people look at me strangely like, ‘Why are you doing that?!’ However, with a risk sometimes comes a huge reward. It’s about having the vision to be able to turn a challenge into something, and then you win the Heisman.

Hip-hop is always what’s the coolest, and people want to touch that. A lot of the Pop artists always want to get that stamp of approval and be down.

I’ve always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by what the radio is playing at the time.

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

Shyne’s my man. I’ve been talking to him and I was talking to him all through his prison sentence. He’s always remained a loyal person to me.

I want to delve into the world of performing.

You can’t be ‘on’ everyday, no one is a hit machine all the time. But if you’re loving the music it will happen. It shouldn’t be laborious.

You can’t count me out.

Neo soul, hip-hop jazz, we started that.

I think it’s just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

As soon as ‘Still D.R.E.’ starts playing, you know what it is because of the melody. Most of the world’s biggest records are less chord-driven. They have that instantly recognizable sound.

It’s rare when you stumble upon this amazing melody. We’d love to make a ‘Let Me Love You’ every time we go into the studio, but it’s definitely a special one.

I drive something different every day. It’s just my hobby.

I don’t sample. I’m not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

My father didn’t believe in my music. I don’t blame him.

It’s great to work with a group from Miami.

I wanted to be the man, the King of Miami.

Every time I hit it with Big Boi, we always have good love. I was a huge fan of the ‘Shutterbugg’ record he did.

I’ve never been to Canada in my life.

Let Me Love You’ is one of my favorite records from my catalogue. It’s one of those songs that just happened magically.

You always want to be innovating and creating what’s next. Versatility is also really important for a producer.

As a kid, I used to sit there and figure out how to play everybody’s song, and through learning all those songs I learned how to put chords together, and it evolved till I could say, ‘Hey, I just wrote that.’

I live in the studio and I’m inspired.

Me and Dr. Dre didn’t speak for a while because I was going through my problems.

My goal is get those chart positions, doing something good in music, and seeing that money in the bank.

I had a long run for, like, probably 10 years with no vacation.

I watched my own father, he went bankrupt and had problems with the IRS. He was living beyond his means, and I guess I was doing the same thing and not even realizing it.

I would see musicians performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs, and I knew that at the very worst I could do that.

Certain people, you just don’t want to be around them.

I would always be going from L.A. to Miami to New York, to Russia, St-Tropez. Costs about $50,000 for a domestic flight, $250,000 for overseas. Yeah, that’s an expensive habit.

I don’t ever want to be considered some vanilla sherbet kinda guy.

You can call me a beat-maker, but I’m a record producer.

I think most I regret the way I treated Dr. Dre after he so graciously opened the doors to his kingdom to me.

I never went out. I was not the guy at the club. I was almost scared of going to the club. All of a sudden, I found myself working with certain artists from L.A. and hanging out in L.A. and being introduced to a whole new lifestyle… and getting in trouble with them.

I’ve been around a lot of greats I seen in this industry that have problems, but the comeback can be that much greater.

People don’t go to the record store anymore. It’s crazy. The culture used to be so much stronger. People would go and support you, and go pick up the album. Not just for the music, but for the liner notes, for the artwork, just for the whole thing and to have it, and be able to say, ‘I have this album.’

Things that are truly great will be timeless.