Jason Boyd Quotes
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I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.
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I had to go through so much trial and error to get all the whack-ness out of my system as a kid. I think everybody has to do that. You have to go through a period of failing in order to get better at it - whatever you're doing.
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I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and it's great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, it's a sacrifice of your own sanity.
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Being genuinely humble and being myself has helped me succeed in my career.
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I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.
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I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore.
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I've watched songwriters, writers, producers, even artists that I've written hits for come and go. But to the world, it looked like Justin Bieber was my first success.
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I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds.
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Toronto is my favourite city in the world.
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It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous.
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I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
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Working with Justin Bieber, I learned that he can literally do any genre - he's a chameleon. His voice is so flexible that he's not locked in to one genre, and it just shows the world that he can really sing anything.
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I don't listen to the radio.
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I love R&B because it got me to where I am today, but at the same time, R&B just doesn't sell.
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Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in, what they want people to get from them, what they represent.
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Finally, I've reached a place where if I'm working with an artist, they allow me to just do whatever I feel. Growing up, it was like, 'We want another 'Peaches and Cream.' Then you realise... why would you want a 2001 Mercedes Benz when I'm making 2018 Benzes?
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People love music, but they also love the lifestyle and glam that comes along with it.
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Most writer's blocks come from people second-guessing to the point where they get discouraged, and they just quit. For me, if I write something and it's not amazing, I don't care because even if I feel like it might not be amazing, it could still be a number-one hit.
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Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.
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Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.
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I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody.
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Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.
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I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.
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It's cool to have a big record, but it's even cooler for the world to love it and sing along to it in every club word-for-word. It's a real feeling.