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I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

— Jermaine Dupri

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else.

— Missy Elliott

I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like I had what it took. I really believed I could do it on my own, so I wanted to try, at least.

— Kiesza

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

— Matthew Sweet

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

— Jon Landau

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

— Adam Lambert

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

— Josh Silver

I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

— Andra Day

✗Opposing Perspectives

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

— John Legend

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

— Missy Elliott

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

— Janelle Monae