Q-Tip Quotes

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• I am recognizing that the voice inside my head
  Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else
  Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Voice, Hip Hop

  40 Copy quote

• All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Hip Hop, Paper

  "Peace, Prosperity And Paper". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Malik Taylor, October 25, 1996.

  51 Copy quote

• The world is kinda cold and the rhythm is my blanket
  Wrap yourself up in it, if you love it, then you'll thank it.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, World, Cold

  "Song: 'Verses from the Abstract'". 1991.

  29 Copy quote

• We got to mediate our greedy levels,
  Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Hip Hop, Lust

  38 Copy quote

• know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,
  You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'.
  And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
  Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff...
  We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
  All adversities, so we can get through fast.

  Q-Tip

  Stress, Rap, Moving

  61 Copy quote

• The thing that men and women need to do is stick together
  Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

  Q-Tip

  Men, Forever, Together

  59 Copy quote

• I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.

  Q-Tip

  Passion, Long, Soul

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  5 Copy quote

• Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

  Q-Tip

  Teenager, Rap, Daddy

  "Excursions". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), September 24, 1991.

  46 Copy quote

• We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
  Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Snakes, Hip Hop

  32 Copy quote

• There's divinity within because we come from the divine,
  A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time:
  When the wind blows, and the world turns,
  And the rain drops, and the baby cries,
  And the bird flies, and the ground quake,
  And the stars gleam.

  Q-Tip

  Baby, Stars, Rain

  24 Copy quote

• And even though we both fly
  Give each other space and not the evil eye

  Q-Tip

  Eye, Space, Evil

  Song: Vivrant Thing, Album: Amplified

  14 Copy quote

• One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

  Q-Tip

  Expectations, Taught, Music Industry

  17 Copy quote

• Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

  Q-Tip

  Crazy, Rap, Hip Hop

  "Song: "Bonita Applebum" ("People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm")". 1990.

  30 Copy quote

• How far must you go to gain respect? Um...
  Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own.
  Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.

  Q-Tip

  Crazy, Rap, Simple

  19 Copy quote

• We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.

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  Being Yourself, Play, People

  14 Copy quote

• Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

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  Moving, Firsts, Kind

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  18 Copy quote

• Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice:
  It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.

  Q-Tip

  Nice, Rap, Hip Hop

  17 Copy quote

• Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
  Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
  If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
  Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

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  Rap, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  19 Copy quote

• You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

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  Stories, Sound, Filmmaker

  4 Copy quote

• For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

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  Art, Mean, Stuff I Like

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  8 Copy quote

• I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.

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  Song, Years, Magic

  16 Copy quote

• I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

  Q-Tip

  Mean, Two Sides, Expectations

  "Q-Tip Talks Politics and Longevity". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 3, 2008.

  8 Copy quote

• I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak,
  Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

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  Uncles, Rap, Swings

  12 Copy quote

• So concisely, musically we are the herb
  So sit back and light me.
  Inhale...
  My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.

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  Rap, Light, Whales

  7 Copy quote

• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

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  Thug, Track, Special

  "The tipping point" by Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

  12 Copy quote

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