Jay-Z Quotes
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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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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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Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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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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If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.
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Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
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I believe you can speak things into existence.
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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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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
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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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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
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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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I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC.
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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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If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
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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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Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.
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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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No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.
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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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Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena
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It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.