Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs. "
Linda Perry
Away
Songs
Lot
Related Quotes:
" If you want to be famous, you can. "
Linda Perry
Want
You
Famous
" When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles. "
Linda Perry
List
Without
Hope
" Rick Rubin's amazing, by the way. I just need to say that. "
Linda Perry
Way
Say
Need
" I usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky. "
Linda Perry
Write
Because
Key
" People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it. "
Linda Perry
Business
Always
People
" There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists. "
Linda Perry
Lot
Artists
Celebrities
" It'll never get old to hear a song that I wrote on the radio or to hear what someone experienced when they heard a song I wrote. "
Linda Perry
Hear
Song
Radio
" You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter. "
Linda Perry
Songwriter
Ego
Kind
" My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably an awesome experience that these people are having, but it's not a real one. "
Linda Perry
Place
People
American
" I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything. "
Linda Perry
Producer
World
Think
" The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city. "
Linda Perry
Money
Youth
City
" One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something. "
Linda Perry
Day
Writing
Voice
" I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them. "
Linda Perry
Out
Best
Gift
" I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen. "
Linda Perry
Failure
Wonder
Want
" Sometimes I'll look back at old pictures where I'm a little heavy and dressed funny and think, 'How did I get chicks all the time?' "
Linda Perry
Look
Old
Sometimes
" To me, I feel like everything I touch will do good. Because my heart and my passion is all in the right spot. And you can't go wrong with that. But maybe I'm naive. "
Linda Perry
Passion
You
Me
" Pink is an extremely secure person. She knows who she is. When she's going to make a change, she's going to make the change. She just needs someone to help her with the vision. "
Linda Perry
Change
Help
Vision
" I don't ever get too literal. "
Linda Perry
Ever
Get
Too
" I'm extremely hard to work with. "
Linda Perry
Hard
Extremely
Work
" I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever. "
Linda Perry
Spotlight
Need
Whatsoever
" I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen. "
Linda Perry
God
Line
Right
" You need a big team to support a career. "
Linda Perry
Big
Career
Need
" I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy. "
Linda Perry
Else
Great
Want
" I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe. "
Linda Perry
Tune
Universe
Just
" I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place. "
Linda Perry
Moving Forward
Change
Believe
" A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do. "
Linda Perry
Think
People
Way
" I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart. "
Linda Perry
Want
Music
Heart
" I'm 44, and I've never had a problem being gay, and maybe I dodged a lot of bullets, and maybe I'm one of the lucky ones. I want to make sure every kid can have that experience. "
Linda Perry
Gay
Experience
Problem
" Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color. "
Linda Perry
Color
Vibrant
Supposed
" I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do. "
Linda Perry
Just
Everything
Want