Babyface Quotes

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Babyface

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 10, 1959

R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

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It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

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Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

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The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

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I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

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There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

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I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.

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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.

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The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

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Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.

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I enjoy music that is commercial.

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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.

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I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

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I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

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The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

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It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

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I was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing.

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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.

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Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

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