Hops Quotes - Page 9

• Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

  Ben Horowitz

  Believe, Musical Genius, People

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• As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Thinking, Dust, Choices

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Water, Degrees, Too Late

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  K'naan

  Hip Hop, Hips, Aliens

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• Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.

  Maya Banks

  Cliffs, Plunge, Leap

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• I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

  G-Eazy

  Artist, White, Hip Hop

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• The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beer, Culture, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Now summer is in flower and natures hum
  Is never silent round her sultry bloom
  Insects as small as dust are never done
  Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun
  And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee
  Are never weary of their melody
  Round field hedge now flowers in full glory twine
  Large bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine
  That lift athirst their slender throated flowers
  Agape for dew falls and for honey showers
  These round each bush in sweet disorder run
  And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.

  John Clare

  Summer, Running, Sweet

  John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell (2004). “Major Works”, p.135, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

  Prince

  America, Focus, Hip Hop

  "Tribute to Prince Part 1". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 22, 2016.

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• For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the semantics of naming things to give them some kind of distinction but I think my faith is pretty distinct. If you want to call it hip hop, essentially it is. That's the art form.

  LeCrae

  Art, Thinking, Giving

  "A conversation with Christian hip hop artist Lecrae". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Able, Hips

  Source: www.ihiphop.com

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• I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Teenage, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.

  One9

  Art, Integrity, Technology

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• My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

  Doc Brown

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously."

  Ice T

  Art, People, Hip Hop

  Source: collider.com

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• What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."

  Ice T

  Rap, Thinking, Flavor Of The Month

  Source: collider.com

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• I like hip-hop, I like yay music.

  Zacky Vengeance

  Hip Hop, Yay, Hips

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• I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

  Mason Cooley

  Ponds, Frogs, Realistic

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• My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo.

  Miri Ben-Ari

  Night, Hip Hop, Apollo

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• A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Travel, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.217, Xist Publishing

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• From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

  Christopher Moore

  Hip Hop, Dialect, Way

  "OMFG, Horatio!" by Christopher Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.

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• Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Air, Circles

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• I am so all over the place with my music taste, it's ridiculous. It is! I mean, I find myself listening to weird things like hardcore techno music and then I'll be listening to mainstream hip-hop music. But it's like I am so crazy with my music taste. I'll listen to a song, I'll become obsessed with it, and then I'm on to the next one. So it's just very inconsistent.

  Taylor Lautner

  Song, Crazy, Mean

  "Taylor Lautner Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1". Press conference, collider.com. November 12, 2011.

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• Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

  F. Gary Gray

  Careers, Ice, Hip Hop

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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