"When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Drake

#Song Quotes #Rap Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.”
“The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.”
“- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.”
“Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!”
“It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.”
“Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.”
“If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.”
“If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.”

Source : Donna Jo Napoli (2012). “Bound”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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