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" 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.' "

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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. "

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" I think that sometimes, as producers, we just service the artists who's really just the main front or person. You know, our roles are really just to help them get where they're supposed to go. "

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

" 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. "

" I come from a very specific love of hip-hop. I'm saying hip-hop, not rap. That's what saved my life. I carry that badge with a lot of pride and honor, and I really enjoy trying to raise the perception and the bar of what we do. "

" Wine gets better with time. So does art. "

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

" Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it. "

" When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do it with no fear, people are listening. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I take a lot of pride in helping people become great. I think that's an element of being a producer that people don't always take in: They want to be great for themselves, whereas I'd like to be recognized as having helped the most people get over the hump. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate filming in the studio. "

" 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.'' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "