quotes by Record Producer Quotes

“When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things.”

“Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.”

“I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheetI'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat”

“Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.”

“In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.”

“I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.”

“Came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain. An asshole, that role I think I succeed in fulfilling. Dont think I ever stopped to think I was speaking to children. Everything was happening so fast, it was like I blinked, sold three million.”

“I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.”

“The prettiest people do the ugliest things.”

“In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.”

“One thing that I like to do is use words that have never actually been used in a rap song before. I also like to take words that have negative connotations and show their real meaning.”

“Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.”

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

“Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.”

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

“We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.”

“I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.”

“Everybody looking at you crazy,What you gon' do?Lift up your head and keep moving,Or let the paranoia haunt you?”

“What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friendsBut they really your enemies, with secret indentitiesAnd disguises, to hide they true colorsSo just when you think you close enough to be brothersThey wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin'.”

“That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.”

“I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish.”

“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.”

“You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.”

“I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.”

“This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it.”

“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.”

“I'm not a centerfold.”

“I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.”

“Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.”

“I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.”

“I'm very much a creature of habit.”

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

“I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.”

“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.”

“Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.”

“When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...”

“The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.”

“People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.”

“How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?”

“I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.”

“I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying.”

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

“Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.”

“My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.”

“Those who are heartless, once cared too much.”

“A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.”

“The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.”

“I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.”

“Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?”

“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.”