Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Sweat

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Keith Sweat.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Keith Sweat

Keith Sweat is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and an early figure in the new jack swing musical movement. He is known for his collection of hits including "I Want Her", "Make It Last Forever", "I'll Give All My Love to You", "Make You Sweat", "Get Up on It", "Twisted" and "Nobody". He has released 13 solo albums and discovered the groups Silk and Kut Klose.

I've never done online dating, but first of all, I have a book out called 'Make It Last Forever: The Do's and The Dont's,' which led me to do the online dating thing. A lot of people respect my relationship songs, so they can pretty much trust me.
The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.
Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.
My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
I'm syndicated on the radio - my show is called 'The Sweat Hotel.'
I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music. — © Keith Sweat
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.
Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.
I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.
I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.
I'm not in the clubs; I'm a homebody. I go out when I feel I have to for work or if there's a special function. You might catch me at the grocery store, but you won't see me out and about in Atlanta.
If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.
R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.
Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.
People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.
Im living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from. — © Keith Sweat
Im living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.
In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.
My goal was to bring good music back.
Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results. — © Keith Sweat
Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results.
My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.
Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.
I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.
The people that buy music might not be able to afford to buy music. It might not even be a situation where people don't want to buy your stuff. It might be a situation where they can't afford to buy it because food prices are too high. I can respect that.
Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.
Frustration is not the way to go.
If this is what you love and music is your passion, it's always ways to get through things and find ways to get around things.
My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.
There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.
I tell people if it aint broke don't fix it. — © Keith Sweat
I tell people if it aint broke don't fix it.
Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.
Finding a solution is the way to go.
There are a lot of young artists that are dope.
Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a deal with a record company and them distributing it around the world.
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