Eminem's Quotes

#1. Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

Bruce Dickinson

#2. 50 is Eminem's favourite rapper ... I'm my favourite rapper.

Kanye West

#3. Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.

Sara Blakely

#4. My favorite song is Eminem's 'Rap God.' That joint is just incredible, It's six-and-a-half minutes of him just crushing the whole game. It's so different from what I hear if I listen to the radio.

Mekhi Phifer

#5. You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.

Brittany Murphy

#6. Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem's increased involvement has been such a blessing; I'm getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust.

Skylar Grey

#7. Eminem's rhyme patterns are super dope and he can squeeze a million words in a couple bars. Crazy creative. His voice changes alot though.

Chamillionaire

#8. After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

Taryn Manning

#9. Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now.
It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

Eminem

#10. When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.

Eminem

#11. I make music to make you sick of fake music hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

Eminem

#12. If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

Eminem

#13. Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Eminem

#14. People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it" should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's a phenomenon. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it.

Elton John

#15. When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.

Eminem

#16. I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture ... that's me.

Eminem

#17. I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

Eminem

#18. I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

Eminem

#19. In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.

Eminem

#20. Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.

Eminem

#21. The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

Tablo

#22. If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie.

Eminem

#23. I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible.

Phoebe Tonkin

#24. I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

Ed Sheeran

#25. Yeah, it's been a ride
I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one
Now some of you might still be in that place
If you're trying to get out, just follow me
I'll get you there

Eminem

#26. Nobody's gonna be bigger than Eminem.

Kanye West

#27. When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.

Eminem

#28. Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids ... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

Tyler, The Creator

#29. Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, "What is that junk?" Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It's the storytelling.

Larry Bird

#30. You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

Eminem

#31. Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that ... What about Obie?

Obie Trice

#32. You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing ... It's tough.

Eminem

#33. It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.

Ben Aaronovitch

#34. Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not.

Eminem

#35. But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.

Eminem

#36. I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have.

Eminem

#37. I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Eminem

#38. Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.

Obie Trice

#39. I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be, that's just me.

Eminem

#40. I found it to be kind of ironic, because I'm white, therefore I'm appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who's white and won it many times - and they didn't seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.

Iggy Azalea

#41. I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius.

Hayley Williams

#42. That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

Eminem

#43. Slim Shady: Hotter then a set of twin babies
In a Mercedes Benz, with the windows up
When the temp goes up to the mid 80's.

Eminem

#44. Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house.

Clinton Sparks

#45. It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

Eminem

#46. It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

Eminem

#47. I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius.

Robert Pattinson

#48. Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

Willie Nelson

#49. Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.

Ryan Montgomery

#50. If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

Eminem

#51. Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Eminem

#52. Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Eminem

#53. Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f ... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.

Eminem

#54. I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

Eminem

#55. I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.

Eminem

#56. My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

Harrison Ford

#57. It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening

Eminem

#58. As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.

Eminem

#59. If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Eminem

#60. I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block ... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Eminem

#61. You won't hear a character's friend say this in a romantic comedy. Taylor Swift won't sing this, Eminem won't rap it, and Suzanne Collins won't write it, but it's true: just because you're "in love" with someone doesn't mean you should seriously consider marrying them.

Gary L. Thomas

#62. If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

Eminem

#63. Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Eminem

#64. I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.

Cyhi The Prynce

#65. Well, it's great that critics are comparing
me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.

Uncle Kracker

#66. I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Eminem

#67. Fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents.

Eminem

#68. I find you offensive for finding me offensive

Eminem

#69. Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

Stevie Wonder

#70. It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

Eminem

#71. The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

Eminem

#72. I just remembered that I'm absent minded ... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

Eminem

#73. A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.

Eminem

#74. But, Eminem ... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

Alan Vega

#75. I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

Eminem

#76. If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

Eminem

#77. Don't ever try to judge me dude. You don't know what the fuck I've been through

Eminem

#78. Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Eminem

#79. It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Eminem

#80. Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

Eminem

#81. My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

Eminem

#82. Life ... by Marshall Mathers ... What is life ?
Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down ...
And everytime you think you gotten past it
It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground

Eminem

#83. The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

Judd Apatow

#84. That's something - you laugh about Eminem ... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!

Alan Vega

#85. See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie
While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me
Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics
In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

Eminem

#86. I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

Sherman Alexie

#87. There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

Russell Simmons

#88. As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.

Eminem

#89. You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the brain no oxygen. Other words there's no heir to the throne.

Eminem

#90. I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.

LL Cool J

#91. I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Jamie Bell

#92. In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.

Eminem

#93. Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world ... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

Chubby Checker

#94. Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

Eminem

#95. In honor of my goddaughter's christening, I will perform 'The Real Slim Shady,' by Eminem," he says confidently.

Sophie Kinsella

#96. Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.

Eminem

#97. I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

Eminem

#98. I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones.

Lesley Gore

#99. I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

Eminem

#100. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

Eminem