Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Big Pun

I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

Big Pun

I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.

Big Pun

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

Big Sean

Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem.

Alan Vega

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

Aziz Ansari

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

Al Yankovic

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

Conan O'Brien

People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a rapper. Then again, to be fair, in China I look like a rapper.

Bjork

Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

Big Sean

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

Two Chainz

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

Busta Rhymes

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

Action Bronson

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

Common

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

Baz Luhrmann

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

Damon Albarn

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

Curtis Jackson

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

Aloe Blacc

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.