Timbaland Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Timbaland: Your health is more important than everything else. I fly private so I can stick to one aircraft rather than have to sit with a bunch of people coughing and sneezing - that way I know what I'm dealing with. But you can't get better if you don't rest, and I've been going constantly, non-stop.

Timbaland: I'm focused. The labels done ate off the fat of the land. I see there is this whole big land that ain't been touched, and I gotta grab all the tomatoes.

Timbaland: Justin [Timberlake] came to me and said, 'Can you do four or five [songs]?' And me and Justin had a chemistry when we worked together.

Timbaland: I wanna be selective-very selective. Right now hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

Timbaland: It don't benefit me doing just a record. I'm used to getting a number one record, that ain't nothing.

Timbaland: Hip-hop is the same ol', same ol'. I can do a beat and keep doing it, but it's not the same.

Timbaland: My mission is to take over top-40 radio and reach all types of people.

Timbaland: I don't never fall off. I just relax like a vampire in the coffin. When I wake up, you better be prepared, because somebody is going to get bit on the neck. Next thing you know, I have a slew of vampires running around.

Trivia

Timbaland helps out with spreading AIDS awareness. He even worked with other talented artists and produced We Are The World, a song that brought attention to the AIDS pandemic.

Timabaland was featured twice on MTV's Making the Video. Once with Justin Timberlake and once with Missy Elliot.

Timbaland's business partner is rapper Magoo. Together to two make the hip-hop duo Timbaland & Magoo.

Timbaland's childhood friends included rappers Missy Elliott and Magoo.

Timbaland was originally a disc jockey known as "DJ Timmy Tim".

Timbaland is also known as Thomas Crown.