Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tupac Shakur

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

Tupac Shakur

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

Tupac Shakur

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

Tupac Shakur

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

Tupac Shakur

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

Tupac Shakur

My only fear of death is reincarnation

Tupac Shakur

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

Wale

Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?

Young Jeezy

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

Tupac Shakur

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

Saul Williams

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

Saul Williams

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

Saul Williams

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

Yelawolf

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

Lupe Fiasco

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

John Cena

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

Nelly

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

Natalia Kills

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

Caterina Murino

I never download anything; it's crazy! We must keep buying albums and DVDs.

Miroslav Vitous

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.

Colin Hay

These are just weird times, but then the last 20 years have been kind of weird for me. It's just a matter of doing what you can. You just have to play the cards you're holding and letting your audience know where you are. I've been on my own pretty much for the last 20 years. I've just been touring and you could call the albums that I've been making my calling cards. I haven't even had a label until the last two or three years. Then Compass Records came along. They're out of Nashville and they liked the stuff, so I guess they could see some kind of potential in me. They decided to get involved and I like them. They're nice people. These days, every battle won is like hand-to-hand combat.

David Sanborn

And I think that in the case of these last few - the musicians I had - the reasons I used the same people I did on the two albums was I really felt that these guys were not only great players in their own right but really understood the concept of functioning as a band.

Obie Trice

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

Debbie Harry

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

Daniel Breaker

Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.

Chris Squire

The Seventies were just an interesting time for us because we were building the brand of the name but also varying the style of the music on each of the albums we did. Very creative time of us.

Kaskade

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.