Timbaland quotes
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“I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.”
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“Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.”
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“I listen to a lot of 80s stuff, like Owner of a Lonely Heart, by the group Yes. And Mr. Misters Broken Wings.”
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“I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.”
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“I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.”
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“I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.
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“I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.”
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“Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.
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“I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.”
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“I try to be as normal as I can.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Timbaland takes mic for 'Shock Value'". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.reuters.com. February 25, 2007.
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“Don't get in my personal life.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Timberland wants an end to gossip about himself, Tiger Woods". www.mtv.com. January 5, 2010.
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“An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.”
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“I don't have beef with nobody.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Timbaland Wants An End To Gossip About Himself, Tiger Woods" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. January 05, 2010.
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“I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Timbaland takes mic for 'Shock Value'". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.reuters.com. February 25, 2007.
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“I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.”
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“I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.”
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“I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.”
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“The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Timbaland Says He's 'Done With Hip-Hop'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 11, 2009.
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“People do not respect music anymore... They go by what's hot... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys... What is that about?”
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“It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.”
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“My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.”
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“You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.
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“It hurts when people put you down.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Timbaland takes mic for 'Shock Value'". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.reuters.com. February 25, 2007.
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“I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.”
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“I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.”
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“I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.”
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“Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.”
-- TimbalandSource : "Timbaland takes mic for "Shock Value"". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.reuters.com. February 25, 2007.
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