"What's when you rap and don't appreciate the art? What's when you sell out just to get a start? What's when you make bullshit just for the charts? What's when you rap, but it's not from the heart? What's when you're hardcore, then you turn pop? When you steal ideas to get props? When you sell out to be on top? What's when you front like you're hard, but you're not? That's a gimmick."

-- Lord Finesse

#Art Quotes #Rap Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.”
“In the marathon anything can happen”

Source : "Paula Radcliffe in bullish mood ahead of Berlin marathon" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.
“How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?”
“In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.”
“For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,”

Source : Banjo Paterson (2010). “Banjo Paterson Complete Poems”, p.33, HarperCollins Australia
“I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of language. Reading the classics, be they medieval or contemporary, gives me a stylistic energy that I'm very interested in.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.”
“I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?”

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