Jay-Z Quotes
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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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[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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Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.
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My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.
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Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.
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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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The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.
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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 not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.
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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't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.
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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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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.
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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 think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.
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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 ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.
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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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That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
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Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.
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As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic
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I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.
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Jay Hov about to change my name to Jay Pesobut in a meantime called me William H thoughon a platinum Yamaha got the engine gunningthrowing it up like liquor on an empty stomach.
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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.