Hips Quotes - Page 7

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

  Chuck D

  Party, Hip Hop, Enemy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

  Derek Luke

  Rap, Mirrors, Hip Hop

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

  Michael Winslow

  Art, Blessing, Eggs

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

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• People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

  Ian MacKaye

  Rocks, Ideas, Space

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• My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Depression, Moving, Daddy

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.

  Kanye West

  Book, Kids, Long

  Interview with DJ Booth, djbooth.net.

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• Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Artist, Men, Listening Ear

  Interview with DJ Booth, djbooth.net.

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• Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

  DJ Shadow

  Cutting, Essence, Drawing

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• We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks. ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.

  RZA

  Real, Want Something, People

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• Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

  Mos Def

  Hip Hop, Hops, Asks

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• The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
  I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.

  Daniel Dumile

  Sex, Rap, Rocks

  "Song: Figure Of Speech (Album: Mr. Hood)". 1991.

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• Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop,
  The second a record was number one on the pop charts.
  But don't skip on the heart, it gotta start in the ghetto,
  Let no one forget about the hard part.

  MC Serch

  Rap, Heart, Ghetto

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• The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
  It's all contractual and about money makin'.

  Black Thought

  Rap, Hip Hop, Principles

  "Song: "What They Do" ("Illadelph Halflife")". 1996.

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• Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma.
  Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

  Cormega

  Karma, Drama, Rap

  Song: Journey, 2009

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• Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

  Saul Williams

  Hip Hop, Definitions, Hops

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

  Saul Williams

  Reflection, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Sight, Hands

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• Yeah, I finished, it was hard. Those last five miles. It was like giving birth and then being told to run as you're giving birth. It was so much pain in my hips. I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  Pamela Anderson

  Running, Pain, Kids

  "Pamela Anderson: Running last miles of NYC Marathon was ‘like giving birth’" by Chiderah Monde, www.nydailynews.com. November 7, 2013.

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