Hips Quotes - Page 14

• I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Hip Hop, Jazz

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• Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

  Jesse H. Jones

  War, Political, Politics

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• Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

  Chuck D

  Party, Hip Hop, Enemy

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• I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

  Soulja Boy

  Greatness, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

  Swizz Beatz

  Growing Up, Jeans, Hip Hop

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• Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

  Aloe Blacc

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

  "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

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• I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

  Josh Peck

  Writing, Hip Hop, Graffiti

  "Josh Peck Talks RED DAWN, How He Landed the Role, Watching the Original Film, Boot Camp Training, Working with Chris Hemsworth and Hopes to Direct". Interview, collider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

  Cat Power

  Country, Hip Hop, Rolling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

  Cat Power

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Connections

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, Brother, Emotional

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• Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

  Michael Rapaport

  Hip Hop, Taking A Break, Documentaries

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• The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Father, Play

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• I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

  Karrine Steffans

  White, Hip Hop, Hops

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• That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

  Alan Vega

  Rap, Hip Hop, Records

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• I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.

  Alan Vega

  Song, Couple, Dark

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• I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

  Will Ferrell

  Guitar, Hip Hop, Soul

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

  Tommy Lee

  Artist, Animal, Thinking

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• I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

  Zachary Levi

  Family Guy, Thinking, Want

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• I'’ve been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

  Andy Milonakis

  Rap, Hip Hop, Guy

  "Andy Milonakis: Real Talk". Interview with Octavia Bostick, allhiphop.com. March 27, 2006.

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• But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

  Bill Ayers

  Boys, Mind, Fool

  William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

  John Legend

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

  Wyatt Earp

  Gun, Men, Play

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• I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  "Still Solid, 40 Years Later: Ashford And Simpson". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. September 11, 2006.

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• When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Girl, Moving, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

  Curtis Jackson

  Rapper, Men, White Man

  "50 Cent: What I've Learned" by Ross Mccammon, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.

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