Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ezra Koenig

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

Gucci Mane

I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day.

Iggy Azalea

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

George Herbert

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

Fergie

Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.

Florence Welch

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

Flavor Flav

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.