Musician Quotes

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

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.

My parents were Christian.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.

Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I just wanted to be a part of the band. Actually, that's what inspired me.

How I dressed in high school is the way we dressed.

Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s.

Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it.

At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.