Rodney Jerkins quotes

Rodney Jerkins quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

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“I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to happen.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Song Quotes #Albums Quotes #Done Quotes
“I have a camp so I brought my writers, LaShawn Daniels and at the time, Anesha and Antea [Birchett], they were sisters, and this girl Delisha [Thomas] and Makeba [Riddick]. I brought basically five writers to work on different ideas. You either make the cut or you don't.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Girl Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Ideas Quotes
“That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Song Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Common Quotes
“She [Beyonce]is probably the closest thing we've seen to Michael Jackson as far as having that determination and drive that I've ever seen.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

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“It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the period of time it would take to do one.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Song Quotes #Tweak Quotes
“Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

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“It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like BeyoncÃ©. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Song Quotes #Artist Quotes #Ideas Quotes
“Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Mature Quotes #Beyonce Quotes
“Beyonce knows exactly what she wants, what she needs in her projects, where she wants to go. She's creating her own lane. There's really no one out there who can compete with her. She's in her own world.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Creating Quotes #Needs Quotes #World Quotes
“I remember when I first got the call from BeyoncÃ© to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-inspired music to be incorporated to the stuff she was doing. Creole-type stuff. Zydeco... She wanted that type of inspiration.”
-- Rodney Jerkins

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