Latest Kendrick Lamar Quotes from Interviews

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• There are so many people pulling at me at one time - some want the business, some want my love, some just want my support, just to be there or to acknowledge them the same way I used to. To be able to figure that out is an ongoing process, because there's always another show, another album, another moment that I don't want to miss. But I'm pacing myself. I hope the powers that be keep me on a straight course.

  Kendrick Lamar

  People, Support, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my music. I want them to say, "This is somebody who's recognizing his true feelings, his true emotions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, and views on the world, all on one record." I want people to recognize that and to take it and apply it to their own lives. You know what I'm saying? The more and more I get out and talk to different people, I realize they appreciate that - me being unapologetic in whatever views and approach I have.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Everybody has their own way of hearing songs. My fans are usually pretty on point. Sometimes they go all the way to the bottom of it. It's fascinating to me how far an idea can go. I wrote most of my first album in my mom's kitchen, and now I can go around the world and hear people recite those lyrics, and understand the story, even though they're not from the same area I grew up in.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Song, People, Kitchen

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The more people I meet, the more cultures I start to embrace, the more people I open myself up to - it's a growing process I'm excited about. But it's also a challenge for me, to be at this level and still be able to connect with somebody who's living that everyday life. At first it was something I struggled with, because everything was moving so fast. I didn't know how to digest it. The best thing I did was go back to the city of Compton, to touch the people who I grew up with and tell them the stories of the people I met around the world.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Moving, People, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I went to South Africa - Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg - and those were definitely the "I've arrived" shows. Outside of the money, the success, the accolades ... This is a place that we, in urban communities, never dream of. We never dream of Africa. Like, "Damn, this is the motherland." You feel it as soon as you touch down. That moment changed my whole perspective on how to convey my art.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Dream, Art, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I look at comedy, it's all self-expression. I apply that same method to my music. I came up listening to N.W.A and Snoop. Like them, it's in me to express how I feel. You might like it or you might not, but I take that stand.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Listening, Comedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Struggle, People, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Mistake, Keys, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.ebony.com

• If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Years, Looks, Ifs

  Source: www.ebony.com

• There's kids out there that have so much life to live. That's a beautiful thing.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Beautiful, Kids, Beautiful Things

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Kids don't see hate in their eyes. They see the world, and living in it to the best of their abilities. And that's where love comes from for me.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Hate, Kids, Eye

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I think all Geminis are kids at heart. And that's why they're able to simplify some of the most complex things and connect with people. It's having that kid spirit.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Heart, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Kids, Feels

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Music was just played all around me, and I couldn't run from it. My pops, he never learned to sing, but he'd have his little drink on the side, and he'd put on the best of his hits - gangster rap or oldies - and he'd sing all day on his mic plugged up to the wall set-up. It's a trip. I've just seen that my whole life, so I've always just had a love for music. By the time I was 13, I really just jumped in it. And it's something I took on to have as a hobby.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Running, Wall, Rap

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I don't even have kids. But at heart, I'm a kid myself.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Heart, Kids

  Source: www.ebony.com

• No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Negative, Bottles, Littles

  Source: www.ebony.com

• The more I started going through my own things in life, my faith got put to the test, and I had to believe that God is real in my heart, my lord and savior Jesus Christ, and I can't run from that. I'll always put that in my music or it just wouldn't be right. People can take it or leave it, I really don't care, because it's for me to put it on records. And I will continue to put more of a spiritual nature in my music.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Running, Spiritual, Jesus

  Source: www.ebony.com

• My grandma always said, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I think it's just naturally in our DNA to be able to survive. We was always taught that: to survive. When you talking about slavery, it's to survive.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Grandma, Thinking, Dna

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Color, People, Soul

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Being where you from is a strong genetic. You can't run from it.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Running, Strong

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Colorism is not a good thing, especially when you're Black.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Black, Good Things

  Source: www.ebony.com

• We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Color, Soul, Looks

  Source: www.ebony.com

• The times that we are in, it's something that you can only feel in the air. You don't even have to talk about it. You don't need the news or the Internet to watch it. You can walk outside and just feel it.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Air, Watches, Needs

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I am from the inner city, the ghetto. If I can use my platform to carry on a legacy and talk about something that's real, I have to do that, period.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Real, Ghetto, Cities

  Source: www.ebony.com

• You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.

  Kendrick Lamar

  People, World

  Source: www.ebony.com