My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio. — Adrian Younge Analog Copy Share Image
I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience. — Adrian Younge Experience Copy Share Image
'Luke Cage' is a gift. There's so many different ways you can look at it. — Adrian Younge Cage Copy Share Image
When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement. — Adrian Younge Fly Copy Share Image
Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do. — Adrian Younge Change Copy Share Image
A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic. — Adrian Younge Cinematic Copy Share Image
Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship. — Adrian Younge Composer Copy Share Image
I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes. — Adrian Younge Entertainment 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
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 Analog 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 Best 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 Dirty 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 Best 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 Better 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
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 Back 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 Find 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 Car 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
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
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
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
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
'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of… — Adrian Younge American Copy Share Image
It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal. — Adrian Younge Black Copy Share Image
It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic. — Adrian Younge Demographics Copy Share Image
What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television. — Adrian Younge Black Copy Share Image
I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music. — Adrian Younge Emotionally Copy Share Image
It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect. — Adrian Younge Art Copy Share Image
I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized. — Adrian Younge Chance Copy Share Image
When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it. — Adrian Younge Cry Copy Share Image
To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music. — Adrian Younge Kind 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
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground. — Adrian Younge Air 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
