Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Waters

Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.

John Rzeznik

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.

Nick Harkaway

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

Tom Colicchio

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

Tom Allen

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Solange Knowles

There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.

Slick Rick

Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me.

Snoop Dogg

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.

Snoop Dogg

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

Snoop Dogg

There'll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns.

Snoop Dogg

BIKINIS, ZUCCHINIS, MARTINIS. NO WEENIES

Eric Bogosian

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

Pat Morita

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

Laurieann Gibson

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

Lisa Unger

anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.

John Shimkus

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

John Ridley

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

Libba Bray

The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.

Johnny Ramone

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

Nile Rodgers

I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I haven't been involved in so much is hip-hop, which I chose not to be involved in because it felt like I would be what they called "perpetrating." It felt like hip-hop was so much of its own culture and that I was not part of that culture.

Nas

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

Nas

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

Nas

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

Nas

I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

Nas

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

Nas

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

Nas

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

Nas

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

Nas

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.

Nas

If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers.

Nas

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

Peter Jacobsen

The hip is a little sore and the knee gimpy, but I did just fine. I birdied two of my first three holes, struggled in the middle and then righted the ship. I would say I'm at 80 percent right now.

Ronald Reagan

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane, and smells like Cheetah