Yelawolf Quotes
I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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You send your kids off to college. They love you. You walk away with a Cornell mom T-shirt. You are walking away going this is great, and come Thanksgiving, your kid tells you that you are an imperialist and a racist and a homophobe. That is not worth $120,000.
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There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
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What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
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It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
