Linda Perry Quotes
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A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.
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My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family.
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I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.
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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.
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I'm extremely hard to work with.
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I've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that.
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I love just helping people; that's what I'm good at.
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I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.
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It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
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I don't ever get too literal.
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I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.
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I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.
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Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.
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You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
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If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.
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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.
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I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.
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I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.
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I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.
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Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.
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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.
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For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.
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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?'
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Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.