The-Dream Quotes

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The-Dream

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 20, 1977

I don't stop working.

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I know how a woman thinks - that doesn't mean that I agree with it.

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Most of the time, men don't really express ourselves.

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Politics changes music most of the time. Ronald Reagan - you can kind of say that he made hip-hop what it was by the embargoes that he set. Certain things that he did created N.W.A in a way. Politics has always done that.

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Life gets you hurt. Love didn't do it. Life does it.

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My influence is everywhere.

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My grandfather would go to work at 6 A.M.

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I understand freedom of speech but if I made my living spreading rumors about people, my family wouldn't claim me.

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My mama died when she was 35 years old.

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Some of the time, I am competing with myself.

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I can't control when somebody likes my song or they don't.

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People are so over what they did yesterday, they don't even sit and discuss what made it a great time. They'd have to be reminded by their Instagram, after 52 weeks, and it's like 'Oh, I remember that now.'

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My days, sometimes, it's just about work. I'm not thinking about taking a picture in the studio, and I don't have the time to stop being creative to stop and post on Instagram. That's not a part of my creative process.

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My gears that I have to go through... One minute in my mind to be Beyonce and one minute to be Rihanna and one second to do a hook for Kanye and then have to write records for myself. I'm so many people, I'm never just one person. So I don't have to reinvent because artists around me reinvent for me.

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I'm an artist because of how I do things, not because I'm trying to be one.

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I've never lied on a record.

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It's hard doing something that nobody actually wants to hear.

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I have a problem with men that are supposed to be R&B artists that talk about women in a certain way, because you're supposed in the cornerstone of uplifting love in a sense.

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When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.

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