Record producer Quotes

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

The world is yours and everything in it, it's out there- get on your grind and get it.

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise

Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future.

Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue.

Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere.

Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself

You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.

Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

You don’t pay attention man/that’s why your money is the size of your attention span.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people.

I am flying back to New York as I write this.

I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

I am not a creature of habit.

Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own.

And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it.

Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me.

They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas.

I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I could do the same thing with my music. Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star.

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act.

He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching me about records. I always thought vinyl was just intriguing. A black piece of wax that spins on a turntable and nothing but good sound comes from it. So that inspiration just keeps me going in hip-hop.

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

Kill an unborn baby and you still couldn't de-fetus.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea.

It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music – it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different. Originally it was just an artistic type of thing; finally I felt it was something that was good enough for everybody.

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice.

One day, he took me aside and left me there.

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere.

It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future.

They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

Girl you are a beauty. Well, I am a beast. They must have been trippin to let me off the leash.

Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.

Our last jam session was this past Christmas.

Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be.

You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.