- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something else, it's like you changing. Nah, I'm being creative.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you think you didn't win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People know, lyrically, I go in, and you should never take me lightly on any record.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone needs a lay-up at some point in life - just somebody to look out, something good to happen in your life to kind of push you forward.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say when you're dealing with live musicians and musicality, the warmth of a live instrument brings a certain feel to a song that is really hard, sometimes, to get from synthesized instruments.
- El Salvador
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music is definitely considered the kind of music you play in your car, that gets you from Point A to Point B. So, I understand how important it is to press up my music and give it out, hand-to-hand, just as much as it is to give it out on the Internet.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone should still want to put their music out because it's important that people still think that you are still willing to come to them. When you're dealing with the Internet, it's a 'come to me' situation. But when people see you out-and-about, promoting your merch and in the club, people enjoy that, too.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother introduced me to B.B. King. She wasn't someone who had a lot of posters, but there was a big poster of B.B. King on the wall as soon as you walked into her house in Meridian, Mississippi.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you say, 'Man, what kind of music does Outkast make?' You be like, 'They make Outkast music.' What kind of music does N.E.R.D. make? They make N.E.R.D. music. I want to be one of those people, because there's so many layers to the music I create that I don't want people to expect me to do one thing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's literally been the story of my career. I'm always the second choice. And you know what? I'm more than happy to be that person.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020