Hips Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think that’s hip. She’s promoting knowing yourself, and that’s the best idol.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Thinking, Idols, Knowing

  "Amanda Seyfried: Young People on Instagram Are 'Sad,' Taylor Swift Is Hip" by Rachel McRady, www.usmagazine.com. March 24, 2015.

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• When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

  Dan Auerbach

  Simple, Play, Hip Hop

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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 see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

  G-Eazy

  Artist, White, Hip Hop

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• One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

  Chuck D

  Years, Hip Hop, Lazy

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• People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

  Chuck D

  Confused, Rap, Boys

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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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• Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Artist, Government, People

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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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• You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because whatever you do is right. They're not gonna have like 20 hip-hop violinists in the company. I know what to do.

  Miri Ben-Ari

  Hip Hop, Hell, Should

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• In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

  Aloe Blacc

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

  George Clinton

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

  "The extraterrestrial brother: George Clinton on time, space, and funk". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. February 12, 2010.

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• I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

  Kid Cudi

  Hip Hop, Cleveland, Steps

  "Kid Cudi: 'I've always been ahead of the curve'" by Archna Sawjani, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.

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• My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

  Kid Cudi

  Growing Up, Home, Mean

  "Kid Cudi: 'I've always been ahead of the curve'" by Archna Sawjani, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

  Michael Isabella

  Music, Artist, Hip Hop

  "Former ‘Top Chef’ star plans controversial Biggie & Tupac rap rivalry dinner". www.foxnews.com. December 22, 2014.

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• Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

  F. Gary Gray

  Careers, Ice, Hip Hop

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz.

  Slaine

  Fighting, Past, Rocks

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• I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "Dakota Fanning spills the dirt on kissing Kristen Stewart in ‘The Runaways’". uproxx.com. March 11, 2010.

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• Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

  Jimmy Heath

  Rap, Hip Hop, Needs

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• It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop.

  Trip Lee

  Christian, Hip Hop, Doe

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• I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.

  Tinchy Stryder

  Brother, Inspiration, Writing

  "Tinchy Stryder: 'I named myself after a Sega Megadrive game'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2009.

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• There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

  Yelawolf

  Real, Hip Hop, Alabama

  Source: www.rapireland.com

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