Brandon Flowers Quotes

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

Brandon Flowers The Killers

• Hip Hop
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• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Music
  • Ready
  • Hip Hop

• I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • You
  • Hip Hop
  • Graffiti

• But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Know
  • Somebody
  • Compete

• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Way
  • Day
  • Hip Hop

• Hip-hop was started on groups.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Hip Hop
  • Groups
  • Started

• I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Up
  • Value

• Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

  

  Wale
  • Respect
  • Place
  • Start

• You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Hip Hop
  • Call

• I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Hip Hop
  • Approach
  • Big

• The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Sound
  • Influence
  • Hip Hop

• 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

  

  Nas
  • Career
  • Album
  • Debut

• Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • New York
  • Growing Up
  • Hip Hop

• I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Music
  • Internet
  • Hip Hop

• Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Accepting
  • Hip Hop
  • Limits

• Me and Frosted went to get a drink. But she ordered somethin' bugged, and I ain't know what to think. She ordered potassium, calcium, Carbohydrate, scotch with sodium. She took me to her crib, threw me on the couch... I woke up the next morning with a spoon in my mouth.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • She

• I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Job
  • Game
  • Worry

• When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message?. . . The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty. . . .

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Vision

• Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Great
  • Hate
  • Love Is

• My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Mom
  • Humanity

• You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Hip Hop
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