Hops Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

  Jack Antonoff

  Stars, Artist, Rocks

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• Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

  Dan Auerbach

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  Patrick Carney

  Crazy, Journey, People

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• Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

  2 Chainz

  Hip Hop, Hips, Bragging

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

  Don Cornelius

  White, Hip Hop, Forever

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

  John Cena

  Hip Hop, Listening, Rhyming

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

  Jenna Dewan

  Artist, Roots, Hip Hop

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

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• I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.

  Chadwick Boseman

  New York, Writing, Artist

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

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• She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop.

  Bob Dylan

  Quality, Speak, Walks

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.728, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.

  Phife Dawg

  Song, Fun, Keys

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• I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

  Puff Daddy

  Pride, Successful, Numbers

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• I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

  Tom Morello

  Hip Hop, Fans, Firsts

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• Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye West, and Lil' Wayne, and different people expressing their way of evolving in hip-hop. In the evolution of hip-hop, they're doing different things. And you've seen hip-hop have more of a global presence and impact on the world.

  Will Ferrell

  Artist, Impact, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.

  Will Ferrell

  Rap, Gangsta, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together.

  Will Ferrell

  Mean, Men, Guitar

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

  Will Ferrell

  Guitar, Hip Hop, Soul

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

  Patti LaBelle

  Hip Hop, Want, Hips

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• A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

  Tommy Lee

  Artist, Animal, Thinking

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• I'’ve been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

  Andy Milonakis

  Rap, Hip Hop, Guy

  "Andy Milonakis: Real Talk". Interview with Octavia Bostick, allhiphop.com. March 27, 2006.

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• One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

  St. Vincent

  Country, Thinking, Appreciate

  "St Vincent: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.

  St. Vincent

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

  Tim Cahill

  Moving, Swimming, Whales

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• Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

  Erykah Badu

  Hip Hop, Feelings, Hips

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• I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

  John Legend

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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