80s Hip Hop Quotes

#1. If it wasn't for the roaming bands of dead, it might not be such a bad place.

Kerry Nietz

#2. I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

Katy Perry

#3. I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Mayer Hawthorne

#4. Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

Ernest Hello

#5. Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

Carla H. Krueger

#6. Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on "Christbait Rising" which Broadrick was quoted as saying, "It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim".

Justin Broadrick

#7. In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

Steve Albini

#8. To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.

Fatos Nano

#9. Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

Eva Longoria

#10. I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

Michael Socha

#11. If you wish to possess your soul, be patient.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

Michael Rapaport

#13. And what does he have to say to the impressionable young student at his side? That all poets must eventually bow before the haiku. Bow before the haiku! Can you imagine." "For my part," contributed the Count, "I am glad that Homer wasn't born in Japan." Mishka

Amor Towles

#14. The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Cat Power

#16. If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

Bill Gates

#17. Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.

Dan Groat

#18. I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Noel Gallagher

#19. I took karate classes for a few years. Taekwondo. I'd love to do a movie role where I could do some karate.

Heather Graham

#20. When we bless one another we shouldn't expect returned favours because blessings have no strings attached and they hold no sorrow.

Euginia Herlihy

#21. In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

Simon De Pury

#22. You can't imagine what the Russian alphabet looks like. It's no wonder people are illiterate.

Jonas Jonasson

#23. Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

Raquel Cepeda

#24. I assumed," Magnus said, "that you two would be partners, since you're practically married anyway.

Cassandra Clare