Linda Perry Quotes
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I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.
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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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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.
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If you want to be famous, you can.
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I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.
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You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and it's on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it. It's just trippy. What a life.
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Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
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I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world.
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For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.
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I would love for Radiohead to give me a call and say, 'Hey, kid, we wanna see what it's like working with you. We want you to produce our next record.'
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I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.
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You need a big team to support a career.
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I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to it. It's selling something: the artist, the producer, something. The emotional capacity is very small, for the listener as well.
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I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.
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I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.
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It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment.
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I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.
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I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do.
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I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label, and decided to use the Internet to sell my records.
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I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.
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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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To me, I feel like everything I touch will do good. Because my heart and my passion is all in the right spot. And you can't go wrong with that. But maybe I'm naive.
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There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.
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I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.