Hip Hop Artist Music Quotes

#1. I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

Michael Isabella

#2. Many would have disliked to live, if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and a scholar and had not minded.

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.

Pharoahe Monch

#4. It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.

Daniel A. D'Aniello

#5. For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

Steve Purdy

#6. I wanted the syrupy taste of this small rebellion. And this stupid machine was denying that bit of freedom to me ... just like everyone else.

Laura Bickle

#7. Kaylee do you know why you are here?" "Yeah. Because the doors are locked.

Rachel Vincent

#8. When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.

ASAP Rocky

#9. I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

G-Eazy

#10. Love selflessly, give generously;
everything and everyone will be yours.

Debasish Mridha

#11. I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.

Brother Ali

#12. If your eyes can not cry, then your gut will.
The head and heart may be in denial of your human needs, but the gut will always carry the wisdom of your needs met and unmet, and thusly respond.

Martha Char Love

#13. The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

#14. Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius.

Michael Eric Dyson

#15. I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

Jay-Z

#16. Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Carla Bruni

#17. I stand for something. I stand for light. Even when I sleep!

Matthew Maher

#18. Some people go shopping - I cut myself.

Angelina Jolie

#19. Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

Virgil

#20. It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

Caroline Polachek

#21. Every time my head hit the pillow, I wondered why I had ever left my bed in the first place.

Emily Adrian

#22. Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#23. Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

Marvin Sapp

#24. I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.

Chadwick Boseman

#25. The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Henry Rollins