Babyface Quotes

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Babyface

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 10, 1959

The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.

Babyface

The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

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I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

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I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

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You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

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I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.

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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

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But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

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I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

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I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

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The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

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I could easily not be the person that people know.

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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.

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I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

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When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

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Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

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Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.

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I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.

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The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.

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