Jay-Z Quotes
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Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?
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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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Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
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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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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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Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.
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Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
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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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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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Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena
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You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
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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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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
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Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.
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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.
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Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
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I believe you can speak things into existence.
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My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.
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My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it
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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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[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
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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 thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.
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I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.