Timbaland Quotes

#1. It hurts when people put you down.

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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.'

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#5. I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

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#6. 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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#7. I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

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#8. My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

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#9. My first love is producing.

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#10. You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

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#11. I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.

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#12. I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'

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#13. Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

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#14. I work out all the time. I love it.

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#15. Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

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#16. I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

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#17. I try to be as normal as I can.

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#18. Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

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#19. I don't have beef with nobody.

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#20. 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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#21. I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.

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#22. I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

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#23. The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

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#24. I'm a musical genius.

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#25. I wanna be selective ... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

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#26. I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

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#27. 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.

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#28. I know somebody in every culture.

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#29. I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

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#30. When I first met Aaliyah - it time for the world to hear this, I'm gonna give a little secret - I was in love with her.

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#31. I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

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#32. 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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#33. I'm the type of person who tries to save the world.

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#34. It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.

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#35. Don't get in my personal life.

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#36. 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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