Rodney Jerkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Thinking #Backyards #World
I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to happen.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Song #Albums #Done
I have a camp so I brought my writers, LaShawn Daniels and at the time, Anesha and Antea [Birchett], they were sisters, and this girl Delisha [Thomas] and Makeba [Riddick]. I brought basically five writers to work on different ideas. You either make the cut or you don't.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Girl #Cutting #Ideas
That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Song #Cutting #Common
She [Beyonce]is probably the closest thing we've seen to Michael Jackson as far as having that determination and drive that I've ever seen.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Determination #Beyonce #Closest
It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the period of time it would take to do one.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Song #Tweak
Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Records #Four #Likes
It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like BeyoncÃ©. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Song #Artist #Ideas
Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Mature #Beyonce
Beyonce knows exactly what she wants, what she needs in her projects, where she wants to go. She's creating her own lane. There's really no one out there who can compete with her. She's in her own world.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Creating #Needs #World
I remember when I first got the call from BeyoncÃ© to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-inspired music to be incorporated to the stuff she was doing. Creole-type stuff. Zydeco... She wanted that type of inspiration.
-- Rodney Jerkins

#Inspiration #New Orleans #Feelings

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