Missy Elliot famous quotes

Music should be your escape.
-- Missy Elliot

#Music #Should

When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.
-- Missy Elliot

#Artist #Order #Labels

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
-- Missy Elliot

#Creative #Hip Hop #Hips

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.
-- Missy Elliot

#Writing #First Love #Love Is

Everybody is doing the same old thing.
-- Missy Elliot

#Old Things #Same Old Thing

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.
-- Missy Elliot

#Kids #Listening #Goes On

Lil Wayne is a person who I think is really deserving of the success he's had. I'm someone who can stay in the studio 24-7, and I've watched him stay in there just as long. He has a creativeness about him that I love.
-- Missy Elliot

#Thinking #Long #Wayne

I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"
-- Missy Elliot

#Sneakers #Maids #Too Much

The double chin's not good for the red carpet.
-- Missy Elliot

#Red #Carpet #Chins

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
-- Missy Elliot

#Father #Struggle #Home

I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it
-- Missy Elliot

#Flip #Reverse

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.
-- Missy Elliot

#Hot #Want #Copies

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
-- Missy Elliot

#Impact #Creative

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.
-- Missy Elliot

#Kids #Hip Hop #Unity

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
-- Missy Elliot

#Mother #Strong #Father

I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
-- Missy Elliot

#Cousin #Eye #Scared

Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?
-- Missy Elliot

#Boys #Drunk #Hip Hop

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.
-- Missy Elliot

#Genius #Want

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
-- Missy Elliot

#Funny #Music #Able

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
-- Missy Elliot

#People #Want

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.
-- Missy Elliot

#Mean #Streets #Persons

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.
-- Missy Elliot

What my home life is like now is great.
-- Missy Elliot

#Home #Life Is Like #Life Is

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.
-- Missy Elliot

#People #Want #Size

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.
-- Missy Elliot

#Ready

I want to be cutting-edge.
-- Missy Elliot

#Cutting #Want #Cutting Edge

I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records.
-- Missy Elliot

#Games #Giving #Records

I love this city [Tel Aviv]!
-- Missy Elliot

#Israel #Cities

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
-- Missy Elliot

#Mean #Rhyming #Rhyme

MC is a funny girl and always makes me laugh no matter what. I love her!
-- Missy Elliot

#Girl #Laughing #Matter

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want
-- Missy Elliot

#Giving #Want #What You Want

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
-- Missy Elliot

#People #Want #Radio

I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say that we would do it because we would be locked up if you go by my video version of it but just in our minds, if we could have our way with a relationship gone bad. So it's crazy.
-- Missy Elliot

#Revenge #Crazy #Mind

I wasn't born a superstar.
-- Missy Elliot

#Superstar #Born

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.
-- Missy Elliot

#Mother #First Love #Firsts