Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by The-Dream - Page 2

Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful story and having that story resonate with people.

The business of a label is to make money - my business is to make music. I'm gonna get paid if I do it right.

Most of the time, men don't really express ourselves.

You probably shouldn't date a songwriter if you don't want to end up on the record.

I love movies. They've always influenced the music i've done.

My influence is everywhere.

When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.

People are so over what they did yesterday, they don't even sit and discuss what made it a great time. They'd have to be reminded by their Instagram, after 52 weeks, and it's like 'Oh, I remember that now.'

I'm not arrogant but I'm confident enough to know what I can do and what I can't do. And I'm fine with what I can't.

There's nothing I can't do musically.

I love it when people come in my house and ask for my paintings off the wall, and I have to tell them that I did it. I love art.

If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't care how many copies it sells. It's about musically moving the needle.

People aren't really honest with themselves about anything. That's one of the reasons why we ended up with Trump in the White House.

If anybody sounds like me... everyone knows me, I'm flattered.

I've never lied on a record.

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

I have a problem with men that are supposed to be R&B artists that talk about women in a certain way, because you're supposed in the cornerstone of uplifting love in a sense.

Politics changes music most of the time. Ronald Reagan - you can kind of say that he made hip-hop what it was by the embargoes that he set. Certain things that he did created N.W.A in a way. Politics has always done that.

I paint. A lot of people don't know that.

There are certain people who respect me in the dark. Some people who don't know me are afraid to say, 'What you doin' is kind of incredible.'

Earlier in my career I had so much to prove.

I used to draw cars when I was growing up. I wanted to be a car designer. I've never been professionally taught. It's something that comes and goes.

I understand freedom of speech but if I made my living spreading rumors about people, my family wouldn't claim me.

I've always had a soft spot for women because of my mom. Just their power.

It's hard doing something that nobody actually wants to hear.

The-Dream is a fantasy, but without fiction.

My gears that I have to go through... One minute in my mind to be Beyonce and one minute to be Rihanna and one second to do a hook for Kanye and then have to write records for myself. I'm so many people, I'm never just one person. So I don't have to reinvent because artists around me reinvent for me.

I know how a woman thinks - that doesn't mean that I agree with it.

I can't control when somebody likes my song or they don't.

I think The Weeknd is an incredible melodically driven artist. People often say to me that he sounds a lot like what I do, and I'm sure that the influence is there. But he's not me, nor is he trying to be me.

Life gets you hurt. Love didn't do it. Life does it.

Some of the time, I am competing with myself.

I always loved the Clipse. Period, point blank.

I listen to Sinatra way more than a person my age probably should.

I don't stop working.

My mama died when she was 35 years old.

The world gets better as soon as people start doing exactly what they're great at.

I'm an artist because of how I do things, not because I'm trying to be one.

My days, sometimes, it's just about work. I'm not thinking about taking a picture in the studio, and I don't have the time to stop being creative to stop and post on Instagram. That's not a part of my creative process.

My grandfather would go to work at 6 A.M.

I want people to dance. I want people to feel good. You went to work, you feel bad - come here, feel good, dance. Don't leave the club feeling worse than you did before you got there! That's what music used to be for.

Nightmares have become my dreams. I'm late for my date with destiny. I'm on my path.

I think the emotion that song carries makes it good. Because you have to produce around something - an emotional attachment and a feeling. The melody itself has a feeling in it. The keys, the tones, frequency, sonics, all of those have feelings in it. Like, it's the ghost within, the music itself. That's what makes the song even have a possibility of being great. The emotional connection. Because if you don't have that, I don't think you really have a song.