Frank Dukes

Internet has created the ability to connect people instantly.

— Frank Dukes

I look at the big picture and try not to create with ego.

— Frank Dukes

The thread that ties together everything I love is honesty in the intention.

— Frank Dukes

I'm just at home all the time wearing jogging pants.

— Frank Dukes

When you're producing, you're really just making a series of decisions.

— Frank Dukes

I love the process of collaboration... to me it just makes sense.

— Frank Dukes

In a band everyone plays their part, and I look at production the same way.

— Frank Dukes

I make so many ideas, it's impossible to finish every single one.

— Frank Dukes

I might find out about a songwriter and start following them on Instagram. Within a day, we might be hanging out and…

— Frank Dukes

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.

— Frank Dukes

If you can make the best music ever but it requires bringing in a few different perspectives, I'd rather make the best…

— Frank Dukes

I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.

— Frank Dukes

Whether it's a huge hit or sold five copies, as long artistically and creatively I can stand by what I did, then…

— Frank Dukes

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what…

— Frank Dukes

I totally embrace the different transformations we've seen in hip-hop throughout the years.

— Frank Dukes

You can't just plug your guitar in your computer and make it sound like an old record.

— Frank Dukes

I try to create something that draws you in without overthinking it. Something that resonates with you automatically that you don't have…

— Frank Dukes

I'm definitely interested by a lot of things outside of music - technology, film, quantum physics - and I'm realizing that I…

— Frank Dukes

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself.…

— Frank Dukes

The Kingsway Music Library was sort of a byproduct of all the creation I was doing. As creators, we kind of just…

— Frank Dukes

I come from the school of hip-hop where you just buy records and sample records all the time. Doing that is tough…

— Frank Dukes

I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that…

— Frank Dukes

Kanye is producing in the true sense of the word. 'Real Friends' was an idea started by me and Boi-1da. We passed…

— Frank Dukes

I love music with real instruments. I'm not one of those guys that's a purist about analog vs. digital, but I love…

— Frank Dukes

I'm not one for the limelight I suppose.

— Frank Dukes

I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.

— Frank Dukes

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

— Frank Dukes

You never know what can happen if you get sampled by the biggest artist in the world.

— Frank Dukes

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.

— Frank Dukes

I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.

— Frank Dukes

I know people who have sampled gospel music, and then they go to clear the sample, and it's like, 'You can't take…

— Frank Dukes

Once '0 to 100' happened, it sort of spun this chain reaction - really the first big record that I was a…

— Frank Dukes

As I change and grow, different things excite me and I just follow where that leads me.

— Frank Dukes

Nirvana, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, all those bands, at their core, are just really incredible pop music and I think a lot…

— Frank Dukes

I wanted to be a great producer so I studied great hip-hop producers, but also stuff beyond that: Phil Spector, David Axelrod,…

— Frank Dukes