Big Sean Quotes

#1. I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.

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#2. I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

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#3. I think just dreaming big and having aspirations is important. So you know I want to be the greatest of all time at what I do and if you're not trying to be the greatest at what you do then you're not doing it for real.

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#4. I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

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#5. Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.

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#6. Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt.

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#7. Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life.

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#8. When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.

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#9. I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

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#10. As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

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#11. In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.

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#12. I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

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#13. My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

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#14. Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

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#15. Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

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#16. My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica,
Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah,
Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.

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#17. Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love

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#18. I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

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#19. To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

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#20. I'm a Detroit player, they set styles.

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#21. My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going.

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#22. It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

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#23. Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.

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#24. I feel like that's why we're here on this earth; to manifest what we want, to live a life, to have the best sex, drink the best champagne and to live it up and control it. That's what it's all about.

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#25. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

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#26. I work really hard - that doesn't mean I deserve anything, but it's really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It's one of the best feelings.

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#27. I want people to feel like they can do anything.

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#28. Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

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#29. It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.

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#30. When I'm home, I cook my own dinner, all organic.

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#31. Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?

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#32. I'm just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber.

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#33. Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.

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#34. There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

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#35. I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.

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#36. People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person.

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#37. The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as much as they could, so they put me in a private school when I was super young.

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#38. Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

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#39. I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.

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#40. I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

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#41. Man the life of a workaholic ... You either on ya work or just workin on it.

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#42. I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff sometimes, but mostly I write all my own songs by myself, especially the verses and a lot of the choruses.

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#43. I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

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#44. Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem.

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#45. You live and you learn, man. I've learned you can't wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.

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#46. Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.

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#47. As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven't been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.

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#48. I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real.

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#49. My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.

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#50. Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.

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#51. I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

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#52. Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the most critical, particular, artistic person ever.

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#53. I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

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#54. It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.

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#55. I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

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#56. With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.

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#57. Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.

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#58. I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

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#59. It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

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#60. I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

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#61. I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

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#62. Ariana is a huge supporter of mine; she's a big fan - she told me that when I met her. She's cool, her voice is crazy, she's got a great, great voice.

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#63. I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.

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#64. Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever.

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#65. From the inside looking out you can never see how it looks from the outside looking in.

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#66. I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

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#67. I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds - the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

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#68. Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

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#69. High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

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#70. I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

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#71. I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.

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#72. I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

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#73. Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

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#74. People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.'

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#75. I'm not that big, physically. I'm just big where it counts - I got a big heart!

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#76. Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

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#77. I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.

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#78. There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

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#79. The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.

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#80. Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me as an artist and gave me a co-sign. I didn't see that at first. I saw it as him about to hold my hand, and I'm about to be the biggest artist because he's the biggest artist, you know?

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#81. For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

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#82. It has no color to it. If you can rap good, you can rap good. I look at Mac Miller, who's one of my homies, and I look at Wiz Khalifa, who's one of my homies, and I don't look at Mac different because he's white. He's my homie.

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#83. I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

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#84. I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

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#85. A man that can master patience can master anything.

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#86. I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.

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#87. I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

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#88. I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

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#89. Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

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#90. Bout to inhale like I'm finnin to see Satan. We're Satanic. It's the law.

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#91. There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

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#92. I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot.

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#93. Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I'm just doing better than what everybody projected.

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#94. I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.

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#95. God made me in my beautiful form so I'm just trying to execute it.

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#96. I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

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#97. I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.

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#98. Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit

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#99. People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, you're finally famous.

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#100. You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

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