Tee Grizzley Quotes

I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

Of course, I want to sell records, and of course I want to get played on radio, but it has to be about making the record that I'm proud of.

I try to make the songs as good as I can - the way I like it, you know? And I guess my taste sometimes happens to be what other people, particularly radio programmers, like too.

I've done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I've done songs with B.O.B. I've done songs with Big Kit.

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who are artists.

I love finding talents to pair my music with such as Conrad on 'Firestone', Parson James with 'Stole the Show,' and Will Heard on 'Nothing Left.'

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

I've done a lot of collabs, but most of the time, it's me on someone else's track.

I had a style before I was signed, but now I'm developing my commercial sound as well as trying to strike a balance between authentic music and music that the masses will love.

For songs to be big, I don't think there's a certain formula to it.

I will do films I want to make. I will never make a film for commerce.

I no longer feel the pressure of trying to write hits for the radio anymore.

I'm going to make the music I make regardless and it's always going to be driven by rhythm and blues and hopefully it becomes popular. But I don't cater to, like, 'OK, I want to make music that's going to fit in this pop world or go on the charts, etcetera, etcetera.' Hopefully, enough people like it so it becomes popular.

Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

I do guest vocals all the time.

After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.