Hoodie Allen Quotes

#1. I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

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#2. I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it, and how my upbringing then shapes my music and being a New York kid and all of that stuff ... that's really the most unique thing I can offer to the music in general.

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#3. Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.

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#4. I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.

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#5. My fans are the only people who will be with me forever, all else comes and goes.

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#6. I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

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#7. My eclectic taste allows me to do something unique and not box myself in.

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#8. It's easy to choose doing what you love when there are people out there supporting you.

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#9. I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade it for anything. The artist should be the person representing their brand because theyre the best person to do so.

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#10. I'll say this: Google is the best 9-5 anyone could ever get. Awesome environment, I loved my time there, but I grew up with my dream to pursue music full time.

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#11. Its important to follow your dreams whatever that may be.

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#12. I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to change people's moods. I try to write my story in a way that people can take for themselves and their own life.

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#13. Money isnt what drives me, getting fans who truly understand what I'm about and want to see me live is where my head is at.

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#14. I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

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#15. I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

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#16. I think experimentation with other stuff is great. My real focus has been more-so trying to create a sound that I can build upon and get really comfortable with. I think almost everything is experimentation 'til you find what it is that your sound is.

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#17. It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.

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#18. Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

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#19. I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

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#20. Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.

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#21. I think the craziest thing I've seen is probably a fan sleeping overnight for two nights before a show, which was probably a bit excessive - they still probably could have been first either way! But I guess it turned into a really exciting, sort of, camping-out trip for them so it was cool.

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#22. I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same references so when they hear it being used as a metaphor to something else they'll be like that's unique, or funny or something that's relatable to me.

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#23. My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.

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#24. I love having fans of all ages but it's especially cool for me to have young fans. I hope to be a role model for kids who want to follow their dreams.

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#25. I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old ... so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop.

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#26. In terms of everything, I'm happy and stand behind my video. If you can't tell we had a lot of fun doing it and you want to nitpick - I don't know. That's why you exist on the internet and not anywhere else.

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#27. The blogosphere gives me my life, I am fortunate to have developed relationships with great websites who allow me to reach a whole ton of new people everyday.

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#28. I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.

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#29. It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome.

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#30. People don't realize that there's no label and everything is self-financed and we make do and do our own thing. I was just happy to do my first video, I thought it was a fun experience.

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#31. I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

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#32. I never want a fan to come and hear what they hear on their iPod, its about creating a unqiue and awesome experience.

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#33. I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

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#34. I am very lucky to have people who care about me and care about my music. I think it would be irresponsible to not show them as much love back as they show me.

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#35. The cool thing about college tours is you make friends with a lot of other artists because the schools come in and they're looking to make a diverse grouping together and then it works out for everyone.

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