Diane Warren Quotes

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.

I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit.

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

I don't need much coaxing.

50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot of things that have loops and sequencers, but I couldn't really be bothered.

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

When a wolf doesn't want to do something, they look really cute.

Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.

He was amenable to argument, but it took a hell of a lot of argument

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

A lot of my friends tried to talk me out of running.

To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with Paul McCartney, but it's nothing personal. It's just from a musical point of view.

My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.

'Welcome to Atlanta' was a song I wanted to do on my first album. The idea was for me and Outkast to do it, but I could never come up with a beat for us to do it. Outkast beats and my beats were very different.

A lot of my friends hate my music. I have weird taste.

I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.

I'm a fan of good music, period.

I like a lot of the new artists, but there's only one I can name that stands out to me the most: Kendrick Lamar.