Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by The-Dream

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Terius Youngdell Nash, better known by his stage name The-Dream, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. His co-writing credits include songs with "Me Against the Music" (2003) for Britney Spears, "Ride" (2010) for Ciara, "Umbrella" (2007) for Rihanna, "Single Ladies " (2008) and "Partition" (2013) for Beyoncé, "Touch My Body" (2008) for Mariah Carey, "16 @ War" for Karina Pasian (2008), "Baby" (2010) for Justin Bieber, "All of the Lights"(2010) for Kanye West, and "No Church in the Wild" (2013) for Jay-Z and Kanye West. As a solo recording artist, he released five studio albums between 2007 and 2013: Love/Hate (2007), Love vs. Money (2009), Love King (2010), 1977 (2011) and IV Play (2013). His most recent album releases were the 2018 triple album Ménage à Trois: Sextape Vol. 1, 2, 3 and the 2020 album Sextape 4.

American - Musician | Born: September 20, 1977

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Everybody needs love and loves something.

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I got fed up with the idea of partnering with labels on a major scale because of how they have to deliver things. They get gun-shy.

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R&B is a conversation that you should be able to sit down and have.

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I am pretty frank of a guy. That used to be appreciated, back in the day.

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I love Kanye. He's literally the only person that challenges me. He has an overwhelming love for music also, and that's why he's misunderstood. The boy is a genius. You can be mad all you want, but he loves what you listen to more than you love it. When he lost his mom I cried.

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This is Life. Nothing's promised or perfect, neither am I.

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I grew up looking at the Grammys. It was a childhood infatuation with these people walking around with gold statues. I felt like they were the best, and that's why I started working so hard.

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I call my attorney three times a day.

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It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

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Anytime a musician says they're going to retire they're lying.

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I learned to play instruments and I've been in bands since I was 13, but I wanted to be an artist and I really wanted to design cars.

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Every time you hear an 808 drum machine beat on one of my songs, it comes from Freaknik.

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You never know somebody till you get in the room with them.

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At the end of the day, I'm big on principle and loyalty.

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I really love customising certain songs for certain people. No matter what weight that comes with it - whether it comes with it not being a number one on the Top 100 or whatever. I'd rather write someone a career defining record.

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I love Aaliyah.

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I'm not a singles artist - I never have been.

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I think what makes me great as a songwriter is there's still an artist behind it.

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I want to be the king of music. Period.

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It was always in me to just put records out. I don't like holding on to records.

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I don't think anybody does contemporary R&B albums better than me.

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At the end of the day, I'm a songwriter.

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Money affects everything, from who I'm with to what label I'm on, so everything I do now is about protecting it. But I didn't understand how powerfully that would affect my home life.

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My uncle used to say, 'You'll go on and become the dream of the family.' That's how I got my name.

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Frank Ocean is definitely amazing.

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I'm just not Mr. Joe that goes to work nine-to-five. I never will be.

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What I want to do is to create a conversation piece and something people remember. I want to make it repetitive enough but not use what I call 'thin thinking' - the kind of thing anyone can do. A hook tells me what you are talking about and it doesn't have to be a lot of words.

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I think of myself just as a writer.

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It takes a lot to put a 5-piece band on, even though we need it. We need those harmonies; I need those four background singers - not because I can't sing but because I need to relay the message of what the song is emotionally, or the feeling, period.

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More than anything, 'Purple Kisses' just came about because I'm very hands on, especially in relationships.

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I was playing a lot of Coldplay before the world knew who I was, before anybody knew my 'Umbrella' song. Those songs still stick in my head. I just love it. It's without pop culture, it's just a song. It's just singing.

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The easiest part is growing something from nothing because there's no expectations.

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I'm a vulnerable guy, which is always been there, you know? Like, most of the time I put myself in positions where I am vulnerable, because I don't think you're living unless you do.

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The cultural impact of records is more important to me than a No. 1 record.

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I would never intentionally hurt a soul and everyone around me knows that!

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Spiritually, I just have an innate feeling about things and individuals in life and I'm touched in that way that I can't explain.

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Music was always a passion, but when I was a kid I didn't see it as a viable career.

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To somebody else saying all I need is 10 million dollars, then I've probably made it. But there are Paul McCartneys walking around with $500 million catalogs. That's pretty much what I want. And that's just music. That doesn't even include directing and writing of movies and all of the other things that I want to go on to do. So I have a big dream.

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I'm a hopeless romantic, of course.

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I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in life.

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I grew up on Jodeci and R. Kelly.

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I love Rihanna period!

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You can't just keep stacking up things and not go and live.

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When I used to work my 9 to 5, I used to go to this abandoned house down the street. It was for sale, but nobody knew it. It was a mansion. Every day, or at least four days out the week, I would just stand on the porch of the house for like a year straight. That was around 2001 or 2002.

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Rhythm and blues is about what life is, it's about being able to talk heartbreak and understanding that people go through it, not about this fantasy in how much you're spending.

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Man's biggest enemy is a woman who has it in for them.

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I'm an oddball Georgia working guy.

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Some people aren't smart enough to understand the intellectual part of a being. That's why as a 30-year-old you don't have a conversation with a 15-year-old. I don't dine with 15-year-olds and talk about life. Our experiences are completely different.

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When the Atlanta Braves were owned by Ted Turner, he was very passionate and did whatever it took to do something good - and eventually he made money. Labels used to be the same way. Now they're corporations, and it's only about their stock.

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One thing is relationships: Don't get in a relationship if you're going to leave a man if he cheats on you. Because 99% of the time he's going to cheat.

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If you got a hit and you're white, there are no limits to what you can do.

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What I look forward to the most is influencing an individual to go out into the world and make the world a better place.

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My influence is everywhere. You know when you're touching people.

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I am human, and people fall in and out of love all the time.

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I don't believe in cards. I believe in cash. I'd carry gold if it wasn't so heavy.

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You don't need a band to do hip-hop; you only need a DJ.