Top 53 Timbaland Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Timbaland

#1. My absolute idols growing up were Michael Jackson and Prince, and so, to get the stamp of approval from someone like Timbaland whom I know that these artists respect, that is a huge feat.

Jussie Smollett

#2. I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.

Talib Kweli

#3. I've known Timbaland for a while. We developed a friendship. He always said he would come back for me when he was ready, and he did. We've been rocking and rolling since we got together a couple of years ago. I'm blessed to be under his mentorship, and grateful he's opened so many doors for me.

V. Bozeman

#4. I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

Taylor Dayne

#5. A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.

Diplo

#6. I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Missy Elliott

#7. Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

Eddie Vedder

#8. Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. As far as my own music career - you could liken my chemistry with Timbaland to Marty Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

Justin Timberlake

#9. It's been a blessing to work under Team Timbaland.

Jussie Smollett

#10. As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats.

Bubba Sparxxx

#11. Timbaland's so wishy-washy sometimes - he'll hate a song at first and then love it, and then maybe go back to not liking it as much as something else.

Keri Hilson

#12. What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.

Katy B

#13. All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'

Brandy Norwood

#14. Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

Doug E. Fresh

#15. I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

Bruno Mars

#16. He [Timbaland] meshes well with a lot of great people, like he meshes well with Timberlake, Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado. I'm hoping I'm another one that he meshes well with, because it could be really genius.

Justin Bieber

#17. I remember wearing the big oversized baseball and basketball jerseys and Timbaland boots. I was a tomboy growing up. I recently caught a picture of myself, and I was like, 'God! What was I thinking about?'

Drew Sidora

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

Timbaland

#19. 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.

Timbaland

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

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

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

Timbaland

#23. I'm a musical genius.

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

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

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#26. 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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#27. I know somebody in every culture.

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

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

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

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

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

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#35. 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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#36. My first love is producing.

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#37. It hurts when people put you down.

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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.'

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

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#42. 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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