Hops Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.

  Ashley Kahn

  Rocks, Long, Hip Hop

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• Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Hip Hop, Hips, Motivated

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• I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.

  Kreayshawn

  Crazy, Rap, Rainbow

  "Hear the Latest from Kreayshawn, a Tattooed, Potty-Mouthed Hip-Hop Artist With a Soft Spot for the Spice Girls" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

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• At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

  Iggy Azalea

  Careers, Long, People

  "Iggy Azalea Hopes She'll Still Be 'Gyrating in a Leotard at 35'". Interview with Sarah Ball, www.gq.com. January 19, 2015.

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• I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

  Natalia Kills

  Hip Hop, Able, Hips

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• Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other.

  Canibus

  Mirrors, Two, Hip Hop

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• The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

  Wallace Stevens

  Winter, Ice, Sky

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.319, Vintage

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• When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

  Nas

  Real, Perfect, Hip Hop

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• 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, Hips

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• When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Weed, Wife, Trouble

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• As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

  Ray Floyd

  Dad, Lying, Kids

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• You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

  Ice T

  Hip Hop, Hips, Doe

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• A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.

  Martin Buber

  Teacher, Rose, Grandfather

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

  Chuck D

  Party, Hip Hop, Enemy

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• Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Culture

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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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• 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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• Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

  Aloe Blacc

  Hip Hop, Style, Hips

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

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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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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  Dan Chaon

  Different, Three, Back And Forth

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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, Hips

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

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