Famous Quotes & Sayings

Macklemore

Make the money, don't let the money make you Change the game, don't let the game change you

Macklemore

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

Macklemore

Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.

Macklemore

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

Macklemore

And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson It's times like this that make you

Joaquin Phoenix

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

Elmer Bernstein

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

John Legend

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

John Landis

They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che Guevara to sell soft drinks. If something comes out that is radical and it's successful, then it's no longer radical. It's co-opted.

DJ Quik

I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave, to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay

Dee Dee Ramone

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

Dee Dee Ramone

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Dee Dee Ramone

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

Chance The Rapper

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

Bill Maher

What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.

Chelsea Handler

According to Life & Style Weekly, 50 Cent may be working on Lindsay Lohan's next album. Finally, a match made in rap heaven. He's a convicted drug dealer who's been shot nine times, and she spent 84 minutes in prison. This is a big step for Lindsay. The last time Lindsay got near a black guy she ran over his foot.

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?

Ajay Naidu

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

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.

Demi Lovato

There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!

Donald Glover

I keep it wrapped until i meet the right one 'Cause I ain't Mumford, I ain't trying to have sons

Donald Glover

I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.

Donald Glover

It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field.

Donald Glover

Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that'

Donald Glover

I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.

Donald Glover

I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

Corbin Bleu

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

Coolio

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life, That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

Damian Marley

Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

Drew Roy

I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

Adam Rich

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

Andrew Motion

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.