Music Producers From The United States

"I have devils inside that fight me."

"People made fun of me, the little kid who was making rock'n'roll records. But I knew. I would try to tell all the groups, we're doing something very important. Trust me. And it was very hard because these people didn't have that sense of destiny. They didn't know they were producing art that would change the world. I knew."

"We were writing little symphonies for the kids."

"I enjoyed all the records very much. I made them all from the heart. I made them all with art in mind, and all to reveal a picture of where I was when I made them."

"Here, I'm going to make you a big star … and you don't have to pay any dues. … For that, you're going to get no respect from your contemporaries. … To me, that was the cruelest thing."

"I think there's something unspoken that whenever something emanates from you, you're going to get it back. And the fact is that it's emanated from a real place of friendship. I think that's translated. You can be down with a solo artist. You can be like, "I'm Ice Cube" — but you see two dudes on stage and you don't know why the fuck they're friends, you don't know how it happened and it doesn't require explanation. It allows people to feel a part of it, and they can be. At shows we see little five foot versions of us, fucking chubby white and black kids showing up with RTJ banners that they had made at their fucking house."

"It's unfortunate that we even have to say 'Black Lives Matter', I mean, if you go through history nobody ever gave a fuck. I mean, you can kill black people in the street, nobody goes to jail, nobody goes to prison. But when I say 'Black Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter', that's like if I was to say 'Gay Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter'. If I said, 'Women's Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter', you're diluting what I'm saying. You're diluting the issue. The issue isn't about everybody. It's about black lives, at the moment But the truth of the matter is, they don't really give a fuck about anybody, if you break this shit all the way down to the low fucking dirty-ass truth."

"I had an aunt that used to say, “You keep using the same recipe, You’re gonna keep baking the same cake. “You’ve gotta change the ingredients if you want a different outcome.""

"We say that 'Black Lives Matter’ Well truthfully they really never have. No one ever really gave a fuck. Just read your bullshit history books. But honestly it ain't just black. It's yellow, it's brown, it's red. It's anyone who ain't got cash. Poor whites that they call trash."

"Don't mess with my Phil."

"It's easy to make people think you’re a gangster. It’s hard to convince the feds you’re not."

"When you’re not fed with a silver spoon you learn to lick it off a knife."

"Don’t listen to the people on the sidelines. Pay attention to the actual players."

"On the night I was born, the rain was pourin', God was cryin' Lightnin' struck, power outage, sparks was flyin' The real one's here, the young boy that walk with lions Around the outlines of chalk where the corpses lyin' Of course I'm tryin' to revive a sport that's dyin' But the guns and the drug bars that y'all rely on Got these nerds thinkin' that you niggas hard as I am But that just mean I ain't as comfortable as y'all with lyin'"

"I wanna fold clothes for you I wanna make you feel good Baby, I wanna do the right things they Feel so much better than the wrong things I said I wanna fold clothes for you There's no where I need to be, except right here with you Except right here with you Foldin' clothes, watching Netflix Help you relax, let you recline babe Then I should do it, cause Heaven only knows How much you have done that for me Now say, "I love you" it's the simple things"

"Tryna get some head from a mixed thing, big dreams showed up at the crib tryna bone And I ain't fuck yet 'cause her mama always home don’t let this little broad have herpes My nigga say she fast like Jackie Joyner-Kersee No rose petals on a bed in the ghettos Spiderman sheets, got her singing falsetto Grabbing titties in the club, pocket full of skittle Tryna get the kitty was like tryna solve a riddle My team major, we party like teenagers"

""We’re all living double lives: There’s the skin we wear on the surface, and then the one we keep to ourselves – the part of us that indulges in curiosities and fantasies we wouldn’t dare admit to the world, let alone ourselves."

"Music is like food. It is necessary for me to stay alive. It is a fundamental part of being a human being. It is sustenance, full of different flavors, full of culture and beauty... I also just really love food, so, this is my analogy, I guess."

"I can’t think of anyone more suited for Eurovision. She’s an LGBT artist, an absolute live performance beast, she’s drop-dead gorgeous, and her ever-changing genre-defying music would totally speak to all sub-fandoms. She’s made of the same material as Eurovision winners."

"When I wear the crown You bow down!"

"It's midnight in Vegas And oh, I want to be famous And oh, I'm willing to get it just right for you That's why I'm spread on the bed tonight I'm feeling so dead inside"

"You've got to know your power"

"I make a lot of bad decisions"

"I have to know what I'm doing I don't know what I'm doing Not gonna lie to you No idea what I'm doing right now"

"The rules I want to break The games I love to play I know I shouldn't say It's burning up my time"

"He don’t know how the devil comes Right out under the midday sun How he hungers for a way to make control How he’d throw my body down How I’ll never make a sound How he’s waiting around the corner"

"I enjoy strategizing and planning releases as packages, not just throwing them out willy nilly. But honestly, in today's music culture, every form of expression becomes valid if you give it your authentic effort."

"Hot take: this is probably not the first time it’s Rapist v. Rapist for president"

"Men will tell you what you are From the day you are born ‘til the day when your heart stops beating They give you their names"

"We come together Baby, can you feel it? We're all torn up inside"

"As far as I’m concerned, Motown was a once-in-a-lifetime musical event. Nothing like that happened before. I seriously doubt anything like that will ever happen again..."

"[C]ritics usually disparage Motown as watered-down blues or lesser soul music, but they ignore the essence of Motown’s urbane soulfulness. ... What people respond to in a Motown song, after the rhythm, wit, and piquancy, is the sound — the ethos — of the love of freedom. Only in America could a company like Motown Records exist."

"Now there's no point in placing the blame And you should know I'd suffer the same"

": From SoundCloud to Success with Post Malone: Noisey Raps, 2017"

"Basically, my whole life is a competition with my dad to see who's cooler. He's still winning, but I'm almost there."

"Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart. I just don't think it'd understand. And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, he might blow up and kill this man."

"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I. We didn’t even have a bass player down there. Then we’d pack up, get on the freeway, drive up to L.A., go to the Whisky, set up, grab some food, and play from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. It was pretty rough work, but it was fun and we were into it. We knew we had something going and there was a big buzz. It was pretty exciting."

"You'll never know until you try it You don't have to keep it quiet And I know it makes you nervous But I promise you, it's worth it To show 'em everything you kept inside Don't hide, don't hide Too shy to say, but I hope you stay Don't hide away Come out and play"

"We gotta grow with the times, things have got to change. You know, sometimes the old rules don't apply anymore. And now...you know, we need some new rules."

"I know paper straws are better for the environment and I’m all for that. But for the love of everything that is under the sun, can we agree that paper straws actually SUCK more than the person using them? We gotta do better than this!"

"Wake up and smell the coffee Is your cup half full or empty?"

"I enjoy DJing and watching people having fun, but now, I am throwing my music in the mix, and to watch people enjoy themselves and let go to something you created, is an out of this world feeling."

"The type of artist I am now is so much more focused, verses before, things were all over the place. I was chasing “what was hot” or what I thought the “next sound” was in music. But I was disregarding how I truly felt about the music. Now all that just background noise to me, and I’m all about expressing who I am."

"And you... You pull my heart off the shelf, I wanna lose myself. And you.... It can't be nobody else, I wanna lose myself You make me wanna lose myself."

"When I find myself not knowing what to do, that’s when I do nothing and wait until I can hear that voice again, and suddenly, things are clicking again, and I am in that FLOW!"

"You are welcome in my mind Follow me we're going deeper To a place thats hard to find Tell me, can you keep a secret I know I know Something you dont know I know how to shake To turn you on Dont put on the breaks Lemme keep it rolling Can you keep it going?"

"They say you ain't gotta go home But you, you gotta get out of here.(Yeah) But the energies on right now… And there's some thing in this atmosphere. So party on disregard it. The night is over, lights are on, But party on and disregard it. The night is over lights are on, But party on, it's an after party."

"I got that white girl No-scrimnate Chocolate lemon red velvet I eat all the cake They outside hating Cause they can't get in The whole city's out We maxed it to ten."

"A lot of us are afraid that we’ll get found out as normal. The reason why bodyguards and velvet ropes really exist is mainly because a lot of celebrities don’t want you to know how normal and regular they are…"

"…Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years. I’m probably trendier now as a 42-year-old than I’ve ever been…"