rap quotes

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

— Paulo Coelho

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

— Pablo Picasso

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

— Jane Austen

“My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. ”

“I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.”

“My only scheme was to be a rapper. ”

“Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.”

“When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.”

“Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. ”

“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough. ”

“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. ”

“Rap was my drug.”

“I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.”

“It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. ”

“I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing. ”

“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. ”

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ”

“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“ The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.”

— Mick Jagger

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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