Hops Quotes - Page 28

• Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

  Alicia Keys

  Views, Hip Hop, Stuff

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

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• If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if that's the society we're talking about, then it's not a bad thing if hip-hop did degrade that society.

  KRS-One

  War, Talking, Hip Hop

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• So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.

  Ice T

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.

  Pooch Hall

  Hip Hop, Disrespect, Want

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• At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Art, Hip Hop, Guy

  "Kickin' it with Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 21, 2011.

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• As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

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• Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

  George W. Bush

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

  Kid Cudi

  Beautiful, Artist, Rapper

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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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• Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

  Bobby Helms

  Christmas, Fun, Rocks

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• If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Men, Drunk

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Moody's Stories: Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations”, p.58, Moody Publishers

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• It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.

  J. Gordon Melton

  God, People, Church

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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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• It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching me about records. I always thought vinyl was just intriguing. A black piece of wax that spins on a turntable and nothing but good sound comes from it. So that inspiration just keeps me going in hip-hop.

  Pete Rock

  Father, Teaching, Inspiration

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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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• Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching is what bein an m.c. is all about. I wanted my intelligence to be heard in my lyrics..I wanted the pain to be felt...and the happiness i encountered. Bein an m.c. takes originality, style, imagination, delivery, intelligence and presence.

  Larry Bakersfield

  Witty, Pain, Expression

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• When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What is this?" At that moment, I could've been written off. But I had to believe because I really love what I do. I'm passionate about it. If 12 million recognize it, that's beautiful. If 12,000 do, that's beautiful. But I'm always going to put my heart and soul in it and I'm going to shoot for the stars and go for the highest levels of recognition and creativity. I definitely doubted myself at the time. But it always come back to believing what I do.

  Common

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

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• Hip-Hop started out in the heart

  Lauryn Hill

  Heart, Hip Hop, Hips

  Song: Superstar

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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, Hips, Asks

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• I start thinking:
  How many souls hip-hop has affected?
  How many dead folks this art resurrected?
  How many nations this culture connected?
  Who am I to judge one's perspective?

  Common

  Art, Rap, Thinking

  Song: The 6th Sense, Album: Like Water For Chocolate, 2000

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• Why is the world round?
  Why do the suckas bite?
  Why do the freaks come out at night?
  Why they paint Jesus white?
  I sit and wonder why we breakin hip-hop laws,
  Doing videos in houses that we know ain't yours.

  Lee Majors

  Jesus, Rap, Night

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