Valerie Simpson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.”

“It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.”

“Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.”

“Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.”

“We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.”

“When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.”

“I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.”

“I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.”

“We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.”