Timbaland Quotes

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

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  Hip Hop, Hips, Excitement

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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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  Style, Unexpected, Something Unexpected

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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.

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  Kids, Sound, Keyboards

  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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

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  People, Would Be, Faces

  "Timbaland Says He's 'Done With Hip-Hop'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 11, 2009.

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

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  Greatness, Minutes, Lays

  "Timbaland takes mic for "Shock Value"". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.reuters.com. February 25, 2007.

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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.

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  Keys, Hot, Want

  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 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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  Thinking, People, Ifs

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• I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

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  Ideas

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• It hurts when people put you down.

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  Hurt, People, It Hurts

  "Timbaland takes mic for 'Shock Value'". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.reuters.com. February 25, 2007.

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

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  Beautiful, Home, Productions

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• I don't have beef with nobody.

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  Beef

  "Timbaland Wants An End To Gossip About Himself, Tiger Woods" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. January 05, 2010.

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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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  Chinese, Asian, Alternatives

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

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  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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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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  Surround Sound, Guy, Different

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

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  Junk, Peaches, Cream

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• I know somebody in every culture.

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  Culture, Knows

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• Don't get in my personal life.

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  Personal Life

  "Timberland wants an end to gossip about himself, Tiger Woods". www.mtv.com. January 5, 2010.

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• I try to be as normal as I can.

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  Trying, Normal, I Can

  "Timbaland takes mic for 'Shock Value'". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.reuters.com. February 25, 2007.

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

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  Married, Easy, Being Married

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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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  Artist, Bigger Than Life, Break

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

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  Done, Way, Modern

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

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  Crazy, Average, Crazy Things

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• I work out all the time. I love it.

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  Work Out

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• I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.

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  Fans, Want, Lifts

  "Timbaland takes mic for 'Shock Value'". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.reuters.com. February 25, 2007.

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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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  Real, Trying, Different

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