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" Don't ever judge anybody. You don't know who anybody is, period... You gotta humble yourself. Just because you are where you are, it doesn't mean you aren't talking to someone great. "

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" I was a rapper. The reason I stopped rapping was because I realized that people wanted guys like Puff Daddy. That's not what I do. I quit. That was it. I had to sacrifice for my choice. I said, 'Forget it. I'll be a producer.' Nobody was going to make me do anything. "

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" I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that. "

" There's the way modern music is produced, which is, 'Here's a piece of music, and I'm the producer, so pay me and make sure my credit is right and get me my splits.' But I'm trying to go backward. Now, it's more like 'What's the texture? What's the over-arching story?' There are more things to pay attention to than 'Is this the right snare?' "

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" The effect that 'Illmatic' had on us at that moment was serious. "

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" Honesty, vulnerability, pain - these are things that always supersede the trends of the day. "

" Pillow talk is the strongest conversation on the planet. "

" My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic. "

" If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old. "

" When people get to see me interact with the creative giants, they see the perspective and the respect. A lot of times, people don't have that respect, from a music perspective, with the music people. "

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" I have a Chicago personality, which means that just because I'm friends with one person, I don't assume I'm friends with his friends. "

" After 'Resurrection,' I was getting calls for people to do work with me, and I was turning it down. "

" I don't care whether something makes one dollar or a trillion because guess what? I don't know many happy rich people. And I know a lot of rich people. "

" I've won; I've lost. I'm at the point where I do what I believe in and, win or lose, believe in what I do. "

" There's so many things that Kanye does that I agree with and disagree with at times. I just say, 'You're in a different place, and what you're doing is experimental. Nobody's been there in hip-hop.' "

" I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star. "

" I am the guy that, if you catch me saying something, I don't do the, 'Don't tell anybody I said it.' If I said it, I said it. I'm gonna stand right here and say it again to whoever - the end. What's the trouble? Where's the problem? "

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" A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me. "

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" There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums. "

" When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better. "

" Part of my growth as a producer was not just about making beats but also helping in the process of inspiring the song and making the song the center. "

" Common and I have a long history of making great music together. "

" I'm not going to put my music up on some little corner of the Internet or give it away for free. What does that do? That's just giving up. I'm not giving up, ever. "

" Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level. "

" If you look before the '90s, you might not find many - if any - albums with multiple producers. It just didn't exist in the history of music. That would have been like Michael Jackson telling Quincy Jones, 'Look man, I know we did well on 'Off The Wall,' but I'm hot now, and I need to see some other producers for 'Thriller.'' "

" Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less. "

" I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it can be appreciated, more than just taking someone's song and doing a 4-bar loop. "

" I've got a philosophy I call 'no dancing in the end zone.' You score, get back, and run another play. "

" You make some good music, people are gonna find you. "

" I've never been a mega-star. I'm more of a tastemaker of hip-hop. I try to be more of an ambassador for the era of hip-hop that I came in. "

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" I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave. "