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I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in life.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Backdrop
Songwriting
Life Music Always
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Spiritually, I just have an innate feeling about things and individuals in life and I'm touched in that way that I can't explain.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Innate
Touched
Spiritually
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I got fed up with the idea of partnering with labels on a major scale because of how they have to deliver things. They get gun-shy.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Fed Up
Labels
Scale
Deliver
Fed
Major
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People aren't really honest with themselves about anything. That's one of the reasons why we ended up with Trump in the White House.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Honest
Trump
White House
Ended
Reasons
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There are certain people who respect me in the dark. Some people who don't know me are afraid to say, 'What you doin' is kind of incredible.'
The-Dream / Record Producer
Respect Me People
Doin
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I used to draw cars when I was growing up. I wanted to be a car designer. I've never been professionally taught. It's something that comes and goes.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Designer
Professionally
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One thing is relationships: Don't get in a relationship if you're going to leave a man if he cheats on you. Because 99% of the time he's going to cheat.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Relationship
Cheats
Leave
Relationships
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Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful story and having that story resonate with people.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Music People Own
Crafting
Resonate
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If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't care how many copies it sells. It's about musically moving the needle.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Copies
Sells
Musically
Needle
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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.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Uplifting
Love Men Women
Certain Way
Cornerstone
Love Women Men
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Rhythm and blues is about what life is, it's about being able to talk heartbreak and understanding that people go through it, not about this fantasy in how much you're spending.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Heartbreak
Rhythm
Blues
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I'm a vulnerable guy, which is always been there, you know? Like, most of the time I put myself in positions where I am vulnerable, because I don't think you're living unless you do.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Guy
Vulnerable
Time Myself I Am
Positions
Unless
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Money affects everything, from who I'm with to what label I'm on, so everything I do now is about protecting it. But I didn't understand how powerfully that would affect my home life.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Home Life
Affect
Life Money Home
Label
Protecting
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I grew up looking at the Grammys. It was a childhood infatuation with these people walking around with gold statues. I felt like they were the best, and that's why I started working so hard.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Infatuation
Statues
Grammys
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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.'
The-Dream / Record Producer
Yesterday
Time Great Remember
Discuss
Great Time
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I think The Weeknd is an incredible melodically driven artist. People often say to me that he sounds a lot like what I do, and I'm sure that the influence is there. But he's not me, nor is he trying to be me.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Artist
Driven
Influence
Sure
Me People Trying
Me People Influence
Nor
Sounds
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I want people to dance. I want people to feel good. You went to work, you feel bad - come here, feel good, dance. Don't leave the club feeling worse than you did before you got there! That's what music used to be for.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Feel Good
Feelings
People
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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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Creative Process
Time Work Thinking
Work Time Thinking
Post
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I was playing a lot of Coldplay before the world knew who I was, before anybody knew my 'Umbrella' song. Those songs still stick in my head. I just love it. It's without pop culture, it's just a song. It's just singing.
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Pop Culture
Umbrella
Coldplay
Love Culture World
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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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Certain Things
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I really love customising certain songs for certain people. No matter what weight that comes with it - whether it comes with it not being a number one on the Top 100 or whatever. I'd rather write someone a career defining record.
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Defining
Love People Matter
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When the Atlanta Braves were owned by Ted Turner, he was very passionate and did whatever it took to do something good - and eventually he made money. Labels used to be the same way. Now they're corporations, and it's only about their stock.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Atlanta
Corporations
Labels
Passionate
Turner
Good Money Way
Braves
Eventually
Owned
Something Good
Stock
Ted
Ted Turner
Took
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It takes a lot to put a 5-piece band on, even though we need it. We need those harmonies; I need those four background singers - not because I can't sing but because I need to relay the message of what the song is emotionally, or the feeling, period.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Singers
Emotionally
Harmonies
Relay
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Some people aren't smart enough to understand the intellectual part of a being. That's why as a 30-year-old you don't have a conversation with a 15-year-old. I don't dine with 15-year-olds and talk about life. Our experiences are completely different.
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Dine
Life Enough Smart
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What I want to do is to create a conversation piece and something people remember. I want to make it repetitive enough but not use what I call 'thin thinking' - the kind of thing anyone can do. A hook tells me what you are talking about and it doesn't have to be a lot of words.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Hook
Repetitive
Thinking Me Remember
Something People
Thin
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I love Kanye. He's literally the only person that challenges me. He has an overwhelming love for music also, and that's why he's misunderstood. The boy is a genius. You can be mad all you want, but he loves what you listen to more than you love it. When he lost his mom I cried.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Cried
Overwhelming
Love Music Mom
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When I used to work my 9 to 5, I used to go to this abandoned house down the street. It was for sale, but nobody knew it. It was a mansion. Every day, or at least four days out the week, I would just stand on the porch of the house for like a year straight. That was around 2001 or 2002.
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Abandoned
Porch
Mansion
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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.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Beyonce
Gears
Hook
Just One
One Minute
Records
Myself Mind Me
Rihanna
Minute
Reinvent
So Many People
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To somebody else saying all I need is 10 million dollars, then I've probably made it. But there are Paul McCartneys walking around with $500 million catalogs. That's pretty much what I want. And that's just music. That doesn't even include directing and writing of movies and all of the other things that I want to go on to do. So I have a big dream.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Million Dollars
Catalogs
Directing
Include
Paul
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I think the emotion that song carries makes it good. Because you have to produce around something - an emotional attachment and a feeling. The melody itself has a feeling in it. The keys, the tones, frequency, sonics, all of those have feelings in it. Like, it's the ghost within, the music itself. That's what makes the song even have a possibility of being great. The emotional connection. Because if you don't have that, I don't think you really have a song.
The-Dream / Record Producer
Emotional
Song
Thinking
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