Record Producer Quotes

I'm not really book-smart.

I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.

when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

[Drizzy] reached out to me through Chase N Cashe, they're brothers, they're one. Chase N Cashe made the connection, played some of my music and he [Drake] got up on it, got interested in the music and just reached out and said "You know what, let's work."

Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.

Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.

Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week.

I'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

If you have power, you have to empower.

You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on.

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

When we fall in love and we have a first kiss with someone, we never ever imagine that someday that could be a last kiss.

The trials and tribulations in your life make you stronger.

That’s always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they’re just never going to hurt you, then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Have you ever been hated, or discriminated againstI have, I’ve been protested and demonstrated against.

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool s--, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and s--, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That s-- is super cool.

They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.

You may be talented but you're not Kanye West.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

You may be gone but you're never over.

I'm taking pictures in my mind so i can save them for a rainy day.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to.

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Love will find you when you least expect it.

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.

I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.

As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast?Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did itAnd if you did, then that's family business.

I think about things to put them in a place where I don't have to think about them anymore. Say if I had a child with a really bad mom, I would have to think more than if I had a child with a good mom. I'm just doing my homework early.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment.

People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

I don't compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself.

Appreciate what you have while you have it and the beauty in what’s there right now and try to preserve it for tomorrow.

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

There’s a general rule that I always go by, and it’s that you fall for who you fall for. Whatever small issue you get hung up on, whether it’s because they’re shorter than you, younger than you or they live far away - if you really are crazy about someone, none of that matters.

I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.