Tablo famous quotes

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
-- Tablo

#Book #Empty #Abandoned

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.
-- Tablo

#Dream #Hands #Want

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
-- Tablo

#Love You

People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.
-- Tablo

#Falling In Love #Believe #Love Is

Doesn't  the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color
-- Tablo

#Real #Black And White #Color

When the face in the mirror doesn’t please you, turn it into a canvas.
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#Mirrors #Faces #Canvas

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you
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#Trying #Care #Losing

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.
-- Tablo

#Song #Reason

Robbing someone of their smile and putting it on your own face doesn't make you happy.
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#Faces #Make You Happy #Robbing

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?
-- Tablo

#Promise #Forget #Busy

Telling someone who’s crying not to cry is the same as telling someone who’s falling not to fall.
-- Tablo

#Fall #Cry

What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?
-- Tablo

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.
-- Tablo

#Eye #Soul #World

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness
-- Tablo

#Sadness #Familiar

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.
-- Tablo

#Pain #Lessons #Form

The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.
-- Tablo

#Kissing #Two #Burning

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.
-- Tablo

#Strong #Weakness #Weak

Rather than someone that i can't take my eyes off, I want to find someone that I can't take my heart off
-- Tablo

#Eye #Heart #Want

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.
-- Tablo

#Expectations #Secret #Age

Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won’t become still water.
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#Wind #Water #May

Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.
-- Tablo

#Lines #Finish Line #Backwards

What do you live for? Would you die for it?
-- Tablo

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
-- Tablo

#Korea #West #Umbrella

When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.
-- Tablo

#Distance #Thinking #Wish

The way up is a staircase. The way down is a cliff.
-- Tablo

#Way #Cliffs #Staircases

I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.
-- Tablo

#Running #Cities #Comforting

Happiness is very simple and minimal.
-- Tablo

#Simple

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.
-- Tablo

#Stars #Reality #Shining

I can't change the world, but I'm hoping that what I say and do will inspire everyone to try.
-- Tablo

#Inspire #Trying #World

Crying is easy, like breathing- the more you hold it in, the more you let out.
-- Tablo

#Breathing #Cry #Easy

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.
-- Tablo

#Mean #Breathing #Alive

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am
-- Tablo

#Ordinary

I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.
-- Tablo

#Sleep #Grandmother #Doors

It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.
-- Tablo

#Rain #Sky #Glasses

You don't wanna know the sinner. You don't wanna know the killer. Because it's you. Television is stalling evolution. Medication is stalling evolution. Evolution is stalling revolution. Evolution, revolution. Collaboration, the start of revolution. My decision, the start of revolution. Revolution, the start of evolution. Revolution, evolution.
-- Tablo

#Decision #Television #Killers

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.
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#Believe #People #Coward

Revolution begins with one step
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#Revolution #Steps

My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.
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#Heart #Self #Cynical

He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t even smile.
-- Tablo

#Rain #Laughing #Wanted

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.
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#Wings #Time Flies

If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
-- Tablo

#Song #Matter #Trendy

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
-- Tablo

#Trends #Culture #Lasting Impressions

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.
-- Tablo

#Independent #Succeed #Failing

What is nothing to you, can be love to me
-- Tablo

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
-- Tablo

#Daughter #Feelings #Buying

I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.
-- Tablo

#Korea #Differences #Hip Hop

Even a falling star still shines.
-- Tablo

#Stars #Fall #Shining

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
-- Tablo

#Musician #Korean #Pops

Live creatively. Create life. These are two ways to make a better world.
-- Tablo

#Two #Way #World