Timbaland famous quotes

04-17-2025

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.
-- Timbaland

#Hip Hop #Hips #Excitement
Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.
-- Timbaland

#Beautiful #Home #Happy Home
I listen to a lot of 80s stuff, like Owner of a Lonely Heart, by the group Yes. And Mr. Misters Broken Wings.
-- Timbaland

#Lonely #Heart #Wings
I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.
-- Timbaland

#Looks #Generations #Wayne
I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.
-- Timbaland

#Real #Trying #Different
I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.
-- Timbaland

#Kids #Keyboards #Sound
I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.
-- Timbaland

#Junk #Peaches #Cream
Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.
-- Timbaland

#Keys #Want #Singers
I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.
-- Timbaland

#Risk
I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.
-- Timbaland

#Way #Done #Modern
I try to be as normal as I can.
-- Timbaland

#Trying #Normal
Don't get in my personal life.
-- Timbaland

#Personal Life
An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.
-- Timbaland

#Artist #Break #Bigger
I don't have beef with nobody.
-- Timbaland

#Beef
I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.
-- Timbaland

#Fans #Want
I work out all the time. I love it.
-- Timbaland

#Work Out
I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.
-- Timbaland

#Thinking #People
I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.
-- Timbaland

#Ideas
I know somebody in every culture.
-- Timbaland

#Culture
I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.
-- Timbaland

#Guy #Rakes #Use
The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.
-- Timbaland

#People #Faces #Behind My Back
People do not respect music anymore... They go by what's hot... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys... What is that about?
-- Timbaland

#People #Genius #Hot
It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.
-- Timbaland

#Married #Easy #Being Married
My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.
-- Timbaland

#Style #Unexpected #Something Unexpected
You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.
-- Timbaland
It hurts when people put you down.
-- Timbaland

#Hurt #People #It Hurts
I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.
-- Timbaland

#Chinese #Care #Might
I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.
-- Timbaland

#Bass #Jungle
I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.
-- Timbaland

#Crazy #Average #Norm
Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.
-- Timbaland

#Greatness #Minutes

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