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Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.

~Adrian Younge

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People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on making sure I make money, making sure I get the notoriety I should, just regular stuff that friends do when you're in the business. And to call them friends is amazing.

~Adrian Younge

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People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.

~Adrian Younge

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A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.

~Adrian Younge

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The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.

~Adrian Younge

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Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.

~Adrian Younge

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I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

~Adrian Younge

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When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house or Q-Tip rapping on your beats.

~Adrian Younge

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I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

~Adrian Younge

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Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: Unknown

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