Linda Perry Quotes
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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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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 love just helping people; that's what I'm good at.
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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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People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.
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I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.
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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'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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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 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'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 don't ever get too literal.
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Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.
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You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
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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'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'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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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 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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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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If you want to be famous, you can.
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I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.