Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wale

You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff.

Salman Rushdie

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

Whitney Houston

If I should die this very day, Don't cry...cause on Earth We wasn't meant to stay.

W. S. Gilbert

Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens

Tyga

I didn't get into Tupac [Shakur] until a little later, once I started understanding rap and people's stories. Eminem was the first rapper that I actually started dissecting the lyrics, and once I got attached to his stories, then I started listening to Dr. Dre, then Snoop 'cause they were all under one camp.

Tyga

Rap is the number one most influential thing, it's the only genre that really strikes a chord. When you sing, you feel a certain way and it makes you feel good, but when you rap, it just strikes a chord a whole different way.

Soulja Boy

Well before I was rapping. I was just a regular kid in school. I just liked to chill my friends and play games and stuff like that. One day at school my friends were freestyling at the lunch table and thats where it all started.

Jeremih

Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.

Gary Snyder

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

Jermaine Dupri

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

Jermaine Dupri

Before I was not in the television cameras every 5 minutes, I wasn't as visible, but this year I plan on being more visible to ensure that Virgin Rap Division does not lose. Although I am a very low key person, I am competitive, and with every ounce of my spirit, I will ensure that this label is taken seriously.

Jeff Bridges

I hadn't talked to him in many, many years. He got a bad rap on "Heaven's Gate." I actually live in the hog ranch from "Heaven's Gate" in Montana. Mike [Cimino] gave me that set, the whorehouse, that's my house.

Eminem

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Eminem

But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind

Eminem

All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.

Eminem

All I see is sissies in magazines smiling... Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent? Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'? And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?

Eminem

I will hit a man with glasses.

Eminem

You may be gone but you're never over.

Eminem

Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.

Eminem

They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.

Eminem

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Eminem

Rap will never be the same as before

Eminem

Ain't nothin' but a whole lot of suckin' goin' on in rap.

Eminem

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

Eminem

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Eminem

Je ne peux plus continuer de rapper.. J'ai assassiné l'alphabet !

Eminem

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Eminem

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

Eminem

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

Eminem

You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.

Jasper Fforde

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Jason Mewes

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

Evelyn Glennie

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.