Dj Quik Sayings

#1. The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in.

Ray Stevenson

#2. You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music.

DJ Quik

#3. Don't be afraid to get wet, you see, for what comes from rain but newness and growth and blooms?

Erica Alex

#4. Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.

Hidetaka Suehiro

#5. I don't think you should ever give up on trying to push the bar a little bit higher.

DJ Quik

#6. The motivation sometimes comes when you least expect it. I try to keep an open mind.

DJ Quik

#7. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds. That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.

DJ Quik

#8. Me like to smoke the bud but my eyes they get all red, my senses get dull and me forget what i said, me find my joint now and me want to take a toke, let take a long hit, hold the smoke untill me choke!

DJ Quik

#9. The key to success is to be easy to work with.

DJ Quik

#10. I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave,
to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay

DJ Quik

#11. Well ... I mean ... "
Her eyebrows lifted and she looked at him slyly. "You want to ask me about the fan again?"
He grinned. She'd never let him live that down.

Nicholas Sparks

#12. You can't hate somebody for the rest of their lives over one mistake.

DJ Quik

#13. The parties happen when we book the studio. That's a safe place. Get alcohol, food, girls, homies, and have these small listening parties while I'm recording. And that energy always gets into the music.

DJ Quik

#14. To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.

DJ Quik

#15. I would rather die than stay away from you.

Stephenie Meyer

#16. I used to throw mad parties because I had all this damn money! Some of them got out of hand. People wanted to fight, steal necklaces off of people's necks. A little weird. I had to have armed security at my house. I was young, 21, 22.

DJ Quik

#17. Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

John Von Neumann

#18. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

Talib Kweli

#19. I feel like if I'm not going to change the game or do something innovative, then I'm not motivated.

DJ Quik

#20. If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted to draw a timeline between my old stuff and my new stuff and bridge it to where there's a level of continuity.

DJ Quik

#22. Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.

DJ Quik

#23. I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

DJ Quik

#24. As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

M.I.A.

#25. I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.

DJ Quik

#26. Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.

DJ Quik

#27. How long that part of the cycle had lasted he did not now know; nothing had happened, generally, so it had been measureless.

Philip K. Dick