Record Producer Quotes

‘Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weakAnd when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give upBut you gotta search within youAnd gotta find that inner strengthAnd just pull that shit out of youAnd get that motivation to not give upAnd not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face, and collapse.

I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

You ever love somebody so muchYou can barely breatheWhen you’re with them

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the brain no oxygen. Other words there's no heir to the throne.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

The sky is falling, the wind is callingStand for something, or die in the morning

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.

Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.

Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with.

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

I tweet early in the morning when I wake up or late at night just to let you know that I have a show or what's on my mind, and that's it. I hate Snapchat and all of that. It's making kids so stupid.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

I want to make people feel things when they hear my music I want to give a song to someone who is going through a break up, I want to give a song to someone who loves someone and can't tell them. A song for someone who has just fallen in love and a song for just people who are living their lives.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.

(Talks about Miley Cyrus 'I always thought I'd be really fun to sing a song with Miley.

People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.

They're [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven't.

I looked at Justin, and I was like: “Do you want me to go onstage for you?"

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song.

It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition.

The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.

I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

In the future, artists will get record deals because they have fans-not the other way around...The only memento 'kids these days' want is a selfie. It's part of the new currency, which seems to be 'how many followers you have on Instagram'.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

I don’t think I was born to be in the club. Just to throw that out there.

I write songs about what I go through.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend towards what the industry was telling me to do and after you mature at a certain time in your life, you come into your own...your own niche, your own personality, not only as an artist but as a person.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in.

If you're making a time capsule you have to throw my album in there.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives,A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives,Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

From what I remember, I remember always being a big fan of Kardinal Offishall. He just had that different flow and different flavor. He put himself on the record and that's the type of energy that we love.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.