Vince Staples Quotes - Page 3

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• Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.

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  Play, Focus, Missing

  "Vince Staples Talks About Prima Donna, Celebrity & Frank Ocean". Interview with Highsnobiety, www.highsnobiety.com.

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• I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we'll be fine.

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  Mom, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.

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  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.

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  Children, Fighting, Common

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview With Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.

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  Drug, Done, Say No To Drugs

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I've heard a lot of crack stories. I heard a RZA crack story, up close and personal, over a platter of 100 chicken wings that only him and his friend ate. It was a good day.

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  Good Day, Wings, Cracks

  Source: www.complex.com

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• We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.

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  President, Matter, Honest

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.

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  Stupid, Rapper, Looks

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

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  Writing, Ideas, Focus

  "Vince Staples Talks About Prima Donna, Celebrity & Frank Ocean". Interview with Highsnobiety, www.highsnobiety.com.

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• School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

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  School, People, Teach

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

  Vince Staples

  Selfish, Staples

  Interview with Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. August 28, 2014.

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• My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them.

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  Brother, Fighting, Way

  "Summertime '16 with Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.

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  Lying, Writing, Mad

  "Earl Sweatshirt On RZA Day, His Purpose And Paul McCartney". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."

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  Hate, White, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

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  People, Understanding, Get Away

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.

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  Differences, President, Care

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

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  Connections, Reason, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.

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  Artist, Thinking, Luxury

  "Vince Staples Talks About Prima Donna, Celebrity & Frank Ocean". Interview with Highsnobiety, www.highsnobiety.com.

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• I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.

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  Children, Hate, Age

  "Summertime '16 with Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.

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  People, President, Enough

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I've had a lot of people online say they're going to kill me at my shows. A lot of people say they're going to punch me in the face - never happened. It's just people being sad because their life sucks.

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  People, Life Sucks, Being Sad

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Everybody deserves a right to be happy.

  Vince Staples

  Deserve

  Source: www.complex.com

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• That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

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  Humanity, World, Awareness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.

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  Dream, Kids, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that.

  Vince Staples

  California, Racism, Looks

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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