Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Linda Perry
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Linda Perry.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen.
I did love 'What's Up?' but I hated the production.
I'm a horrible producer when it comes to me, but for other artists, I don't know what it is, but something happens, and I'm just really good at it.
I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame.
I told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.'
I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.
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.
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.
I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.
You need a big team to support a career.
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.
I don't think I could make a pop album.
I'm extremely hard to work with.
We're married. We are one now. There's no running away. We have to deal with things together and figure them out, and that's the greatest gift. I'm in it. People ask me, 'How do you maintain a relationship?' I don't know, but all I do know is that I chose Sara to be the one, and when I choose something, that's all that matters, and I'm totally in.
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.
I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city.
There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.
It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
I usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky.
I have to meet everybody I work with before I work with them. Before I say yes, I have to meet them, and then I take it from there. I don't care if you've had the best record or the worst. That doesn't matter to me. I don't care about that stuff.
Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.
You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
I want to be perceived - or maybe I perceive myself - as this really easygoing, honest person that's just giving. Realistically, I have those qualities, but I'm very aggressive. I can be very harsh. It comes off almost mean, you know?
Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.
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.
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.
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.
My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.
Rick Rubin's amazing, by the way. I just need to say that.
I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
'American Idol' is a machine. It's a machine that's making a lot of money, that's selling a lot of product. It's 'American Marketing.'
Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
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.
A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.
My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably an awesome experience that these people are having, but it's not a real one.
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.
I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.
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.
I don't ever get too literal.
Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.
I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world.
If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.
To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive.
For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.
When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles.
I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.
I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.
I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.
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.'
In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek.
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.
Pink is an extremely secure person. She knows who she is. When she's going to make a change, she's going to make the change. She just needs someone to help her with the vision.
I love just helping people; that's what I'm good at.
I'm able to switch gears at any moment.
I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.
I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.
I'm 44, and I've never had a problem being gay, and maybe I dodged a lot of bullets, and maybe I'm one of the lucky ones. I want to make sure every kid can have that experience.
I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.
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