Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

Anthony Mackie

I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.

Matt Stone

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

Jack Kerouac

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

Chris Stein

A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

Herb Kelleher

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

Jack White

Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.

Harmony Korine

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

James Frey

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

Busta Rhymes

Miss can I get a second to speak and quietly mention, That I am so into who you are, can I get your attention?

Jamie Waylett

I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

Azealia Banks

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

Afrika Bambaataa

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

Dr. Dre

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes... Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

Chuck D.

I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.

David Foster Wallace

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

Alicia Keys

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

Andy Milonakis

I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

Charles Spurgeon

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

Meg Rosoff

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

Nick Zinner

I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

Mary Karr

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.