"Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new."

-- Nas

#Artist Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes #Want Quotes

“Trust is fine, but control is better.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.10, Profile Books
“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”

Source : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.41, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you look at the expenses of a great pharmaceutical company, they pay between about 10 to 15 percent of their expenses for research, but they use 30 to 40 percent of their incomes for marketing and promotion. It is not completely wrong that they spend so much, but it is not correct to say that there is a direct connection between the price of drugs and the cost of research. It could be more between the cost of marketing and the cost of the drugs.”
“I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.”

Source : "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.
“I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.”
“The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something.”

You may also like:

Damian Marley
Artist
DJ Khaled
Jay-Z
Rapper
Kanye West
Songwriter
Kelis
Singer-songwriter
Kendrick Lamar
Recording Artist
Rakim
Rapper
The Notorious B.I.G.
Tupac Shakur
Rapper