Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

I could blow up from making a beat or I could blow up from making a song.

I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's the artist you like.

As for song recordings - well, that's something that just happens. I've been working with music directors like Harris Jeyaraj sir, A. R. Rahman sir, and the experience is great.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I'm not just a rapper. I like to produce music.

I've been working a lot with No I.D. and Hit-Boy.

Dave Fortman really helped me appreciate Rick Rubin as a producer.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.