When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you… — Adrian Younge Cinema Copy Share Image
When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
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… — Adrian Younge Art Copy Share Image
I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on… — Adrian Younge Art Copy Share Image
People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on… — Adrian Younge Amazing Copy Share Image
I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up… — Adrian Younge Approach Copy Share Image
Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better… — Adrian Younge Day Copy Share Image
When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when… — Adrian Younge Argument Copy Share Image
I remember those moments in my life when the tape came out on that Tuesday, and I went to Sam Goody to… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I try to find a vocalist that I don't have to make better. I try to find a vocalist that can make… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old… — Adrian Younge Computers Copy Share Image
Cee Lo - to me, his voice is classic; I've personally said to him before, 'For me, your voice is as special… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I like golden-era hip-hop because they were recording on a 2-inch tape. There was dirty, raw sampling. It's nasty. It has a… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
When you're recording live, really good vintage instruments onto two-inch tape, it's the best fidelity you can get. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once… — Adrian Younge Inspiration Copy Share Image
Having Ghost and Raekwon together on multiple tracks is almost like cheating because they fit so well together. Their chemistry is undeniable,… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I'd never record digitally. It's not because its' a horrible way to record, it's just not the best way to record my… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound… — Adrian Younge Being Copy Share Image
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can… — Adrian Younge Focus Copy Share Image
To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I basically wake up at five in the morning and grab coffee and just get to the studio. And I have a… — Adrian Younge Coffee Copy Share Image
