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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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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My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family.
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I'm extremely hard to work with.
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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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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'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 don't ever get too literal.
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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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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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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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If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.
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Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.
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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'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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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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I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.
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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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For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.
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You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
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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.
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I don't think I could make a pop album.