Jay-Z Quotes
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I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC.
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When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.
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I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out
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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
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You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
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The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.
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Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.
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You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.
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Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.
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No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.
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[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.
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And through our travels we get separated, never forget: In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.
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Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
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You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.
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As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.
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Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.
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When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.
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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.
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Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?
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But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.
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What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple.