Timbaland Quotes & Sayings

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

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do. — Timbaland

I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.' — Timbaland

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

When I first met Aaliyah - it time for the world to hear this, I'm gonna give a little secret - I was in love with her. — Timbaland

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

Don't get in my personal life. — Timbaland

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back. — Timbaland

I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up. — Timbaland

I work out all the time. I love it. — Timbaland

I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative. — Timbaland

I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.' — Timbaland

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

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

I'm the type of person who tries to save the world. — Timbaland

My first love is producing. — Timbaland

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

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

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home. — Timbaland

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

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time. — Timbaland

I don't have beef with nobody. — Timbaland

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream. — Timbaland

I know somebody in every culture. — Timbaland

I'm a musical genius. — Timbaland

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

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

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm. — Timbaland

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute. — Timbaland

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music. — Timbaland

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God. — Timbaland

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation. — Timbaland

It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy. — Timbaland

It hurts when people put you down. — Timbaland

I try to be as normal as I can. — Timbaland

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass. — Timbaland