Jay-Z Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.
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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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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.
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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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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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You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.
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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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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
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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 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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Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.
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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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Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?
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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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Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.
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People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.
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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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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.
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Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?