Hops Quotes

• The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Growth

• 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 is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Beats

• 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.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Hip Hop

• David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Thinking
  • Illusion
  • Technological

• The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Race
  • Last Man

• Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Race
  • Loses
  • Hips

• I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Kind
  • Persons
  • Honest

• Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Needed