Actually Quote by Curtis Jackson

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal…

— Curtis Jackson

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

— Hoodie Allen

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

— Stephen Sondheim

Between every record, we all split off in our own world and we all end up listening to usually pretty different music on our…

— Ben Gibbard

I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a…

— Marcello Giordani

Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating…

— Benny Blanco

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

— Daveed Diggs

I never want to make my music sound like what someone else is doing. That's not my thing.

— Scarface

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

— Tim McGraw

So when I'm listening to music, I'm listening to a lot of hip-hop to be inspired and to hear new things.

— Ludwig Goransson

I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song come out…

— Conor O'Brien

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

— Ry Cooder