Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.

Jay-Z

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• Good
• Music
• Free
• Water
• Drink
• Mindset

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• There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

  

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• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

  

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• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

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• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

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• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

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• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

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• Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.

  

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• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

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• In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

  

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• I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

  

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• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

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• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  

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• There are producers that have been my friends for many years that I'm still a big fan of, from Boyz Noize to solo acts. Justice. It really varies. All the way to like...sometimes I'll just find some dude out of Chicago that makes a great house song. I'm feeling a lot of the deep house stuff, Jamie Jones.

  

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• People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Good
  • Music