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1166 Record producer Quotes

I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

About About An Hour Again Aside
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I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.

Bit Cut Down Like
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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
About Dollars Few Having
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I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

About Been Held Know
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I've been knocked down a lot of times.
Been Down Knocked Lot
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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Another Appreciative Christ Had
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Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

Award Back Cause Crying
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
Double Expectations Myself Other
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Audience Cause Feel Get
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The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

About Being Brown Down
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When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.

Accepted Back Brought God
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You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

Care God Help Helps
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You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
Living Others Same Teach
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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

First First Thing Got Hair
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Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Possible Good Sound Music
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If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

Demo Finished Going Hate
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I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

Fear Live Person Positively
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I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Different Enjoyed Excited Future
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I want to party in space because I make alien music.

Alien Music Party Space
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It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

Bizarre Amazing Bit Studio
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So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

Alien Anymore Music Dance
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My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Computer Everybody Generation Laptop
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I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

Beats Money Care Record
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

Play Profile Radio Artist
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All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

Artists Big Formula Music
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I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

Albums Mix Music Styles
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The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Better Chord Clubs Emotional
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Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

Around Different Music Sounds
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There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

Come Different Electronic Genres
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I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.

Mirror Exchange starts You see Done something
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I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about.

Hungry For knowledge Learn Brighter
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As kids we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

As kids Complain Being poor How rich
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That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It’s worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

This generation Least racist Time Club
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You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool?

You make Some money Show face Inspire people
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I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

Collect art I drink wine Exposed
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I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

Being god Work Hard
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I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Think relationships Broken up Media
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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

Successful people Bigger fear Failure
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.

Reasons Inequality Country Everyone
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I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.

Myself Certain way People Stay true
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My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.

My brands Extension Emotional attachment
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My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

Related to Person Clothes Extension
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Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?

Racism Taught Home Teenager
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Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.

Attaining wealth People Success Music
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Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

Racial relations Think Proper credit
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When you’re growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you’ve let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Growing up Your superhero In love
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

First album Need pen My memory
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Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.
Make music Good collaborator Foundation
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You can want success all you want. But to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip, you can’t sleep, one eye open, for real, and forever.
Want success Slip Sleep Forever
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People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.

Respect success Music People
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