Timbaland Quotes

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

- 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

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

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

- Timbaland

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

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

- 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

My first love is producing.

- Timbaland

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

- Timbaland

I'm not a rapper.

- Timbaland

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

- Timbaland

I work out all the time. I love it.

- 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

I consider myself a composer.

- Timbaland

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

- 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'm the type of person who tries to save the world.

- Timbaland

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

- Timbaland

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

- Timbaland

I don't have beef with nobody.

- Timbaland

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

- Timbaland

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

- Timbaland

It hurts when people put you down.

- Timbaland

Don't get in my personal life.

- Timbaland

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

- Timbaland

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

- Timbaland

I'm a musical genius.

- Timbaland