Hops Quotes - Page 2

• I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

  Chad Hugo

  Thinking, White, Hip Hop

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• You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

  Erika Slezak

  Powerful, Thinking, Voice

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• My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

  Tina Yothers

  Music, Brother, Rap

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• I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

  Kool Keith

  Tired, Hip Hop, Albums

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• You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  People, Hip Hop, Black

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• I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Want

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• So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

  Talib Kweli

  Moving, Thinking, Rapper

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

  Chris Lowe

  Respect, Hate, Hip Hop

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• I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today

  Wyclef Jean

  Hip Hop, Today, Hips

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• I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Thinking, Rocks, Hip Hop

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• A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

  Roy Ayers

  Writing, Artist, Hip Hop

  "An Interview with Roy Ayers". Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 2, 2004.

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• Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

  Lauryn Hill

  Spiritual, Hip Hop, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

  Justin Timberlake

  Hip Hop, Hips, Euthanasia

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• When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

  David Selby

  New York, Train, Decided

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• In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music

  Nick Cannon

  Strong, Real, Hip Hop

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• But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Stars, Thinking

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• Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

  Sean Paul

  Issues, Hip Hop, Bling

  "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 01, 2002.

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• We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

  Puff Daddy

  Dream, Horse, Hip Hop

  "Combs Says P. Diddy Not About The Bling-Bling" by Sway Calloway, www.mtv.com. March 30, 2001.

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• I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hip Hop Music

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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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• Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

  Federico Fellini

  Dream, Real, Mean

  Rolling Stone, No. 421, 1984.

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• Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Drinking, Book

  "Vegetable Magnetism" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 1991.

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• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Drinking, Taken

  In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

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• We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Hip Hop, Trying, West

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