Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Peters

Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.

Tom Felton

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

Vanilla Ice

"Ice" came in when my friends would say "cold as ice" - if you could rap and battle people you'd say "Dude, that was ice cold." It had nothing to do with jewelry. Back then, it was like "Your cold, dawg." "Vanilla Ice - that's cold."

Vanilla Ice

I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is black. I recognize that and respect that. I'm just a white guy trying to rap, and I got lucky.

Vanilla Ice

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

Vanilla Ice

It doesn't sound anything like 'Under Pressure.'

Stevie Wonder

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

Stevie Wonder

Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.

Tyga

When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac [Shakur] and watching his interviews.

Tyga

The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

Tyga

I've always been a fan of music. I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

Tyga

I'm just trying different styles and switching it up, but getting back to rap and the essence and the swag that I brought to the game from records like "Rack City" and "Faded," records like that. I got some good collaborations that people are gonna be excited about.

Travis Barker

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

Rick James

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

Rick James

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

Stewart Copeland

I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.

Stevie Wonder

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

Ruby Dee

See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks in the groin, stones, classified unacceptable, not to be tolerated, not to be wooed, not to be conspired with. Only then can music, dance, movies, plays, rap be about life. Only then can life be cherished and adored.

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.

Young Buck

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

Young Jeezy

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

Young Jeezy

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

Young Jeezy

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

Young Jeezy

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

Young Jeezy

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

Young Jeezy

Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself

Young Jeezy

Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue. Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you.

Yoko Ono

John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.

Wyclef Jean

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic

Wyclef Jean

When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

Wyclef Jean

I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.