Jay-Z Quotes
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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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For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.
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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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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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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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You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.
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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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Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.
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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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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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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.
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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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I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.
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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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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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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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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 ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.
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Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.
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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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Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?
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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.