How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you? Ryan Lewis Read Quote
I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes. Ryan Lewis Read Quote
I’m not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else’s. I’m trying to make beats that are genuine to me. Ryan Lewis Read Quote
I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it’s usually with yourself. It’s usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you’re doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you’ve already done. Ryan Lewis Read Quote
The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing. Ryan Lewis Read Quote
When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can. Ryan Lewis Read Quote
I would love to be one of the few artists that hits a point of success and can go back into the studio and make another album that matters and relates to people and not go back in and be super tainted by this whole thing. Ryan Lewis Read Quote
I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance. Ryan Lewis Read Quote
Seattle isn’t known for a particular production sound, so that leaves a lot of great producers in Seattle doing kind of their own thing. And I think, for me, I was probably enough removed from hip-hop that my style was even a little bit weirder than that. Ryan Lewis Read Quote
There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that’s good and to try and make it great. Ryan Lewis Read Quote