Instrumentation Quotes

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

I don`t think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

I feel like hip-hop right now is a lot of keyboard and minimalist stuff, and something I personally wanted to do is bring some of that organic feel back to it, that `90s hip-hop, maybe the Boogie Down Productions or that Native Tongues type of thing or Wu-Tang Clan. So it`s a lot of live instrumentation, but it still bangs like a sample. (about the uniqueness of the hiphop music he makes, like on the Fort Minor album)

The instrumentation was a little different. A little more experimental this time. We had saxophone and trumpet and strings and piano. The other two (albums) I`ve done are more straight-up singer/songwriter. The others were real story songs and these were more poetic-slash-story songs.