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" 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. "

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" 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?' "

" For me, the '80s was great because you had Boy George, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, and Cyndi Lauper. No one put boxes saying this is urban, this is popular, this is underground. It was just good or bad. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe that when you really make the best music you can make from your heart, it will transcend all of those stereotypes, color issues, everything, because music is really made for human beings. "

" I come from an era where you just build something. Me and Common built what we built from Chicago from scratch. "

" 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.'' "

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

" 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. "

" I really like G-Herbo. "

" 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? "

" If you want to make money, that's great, but if you make great music, you're going to make money anyway. Keep your eyes on making a great product. You don't even have to promote it. "

" When I do music, I have a hard time experiencing it like everyone else, because there's so much thought that goes into it. You can sometimes fool yourself into thinking it's better than what it is, which stops me from being creative on the next thing I do. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good. "

" 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 don't speak out of place, but if you ask me, I will definitely speak the truth. Also, my opinion is my opinion. I don't feel the need to force anybody to agree or disagree with me. But if you ask me, I do feel it's important to speak with confidence about my feelings about whatever the questions are. "

" 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 Used To Love H.E.R.,' from a production standpoint, was a brainchild of the style I developed on 'Soul By The Pound.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time. "

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

" As much as you act like everything is programmed or calculated or researched or numbers, spins, radio, and clubs, it's still human beings out here you can reach with music. "