Jay-Z Quotes
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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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My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
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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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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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If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
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I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.
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Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
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They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
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Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena
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Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
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Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
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Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
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Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.
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I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
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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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Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.
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I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.
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Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
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Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
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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.
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I believe you can speak things into existence.