Top 44 Q-Tip Quotes
#1. Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.
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#2. When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.
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#3. So concisely, musically we are the herb
So sit back and light me.
Inhale ...
My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.
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#4. We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.
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#5. A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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#6. For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.
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#7. Satisfaction, I have the right tactics ...
And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.
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#8. You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.
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#9. So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher,
And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer
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#10. In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
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#11. The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.
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#12. All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper.
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#13. I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
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#14. For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!
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#15. I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.
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#16. I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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#17. I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.
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#18. Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice:
It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.
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#19. I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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#20. You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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#21. I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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#22. It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
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#23. I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
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#24. I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.
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#25. One step at a time, a man walked on the moon.
One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'
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#26. The thing that men and women need to do is stick together
Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever
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#27. Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P
Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep
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#28. I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
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#29. I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak,
Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.
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#30. One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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#31. There's divinity within because we come from the divine,
A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time:
When the wind blows, and the world turns,
And the rain drops, and the baby cries,
And the bird flies, and the ground quake,
And the stars gleam.
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#32. I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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#33. Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop.
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#34. How far must you go to gain respect? Um ...
Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own.
Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.
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#35. On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
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#36. The world is kinda cold and the rhythm is my blanket,
Wrap yourself up in it, if you love it, then you'll thank it
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#37. And even though we both fly
Give each other space and not the evil eye
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#38. I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.
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#39. Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.
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#40. I am recognizing that the voice inside my head
Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else
Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.
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#41. I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.
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#42. We got to mediate our greedy levels,
Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
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#43. If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.
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#44. Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me
We in like that, you're dead like Presley
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