Illmatic Quotes

#1. When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

Nas

#2. 'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

Nas

#3. I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt
Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out.
Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me
I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.

Jayceon Terrell Taylor

#4. The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry.

Erik Parker

#5. Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.

Erik Parker

#6. I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

John Henry Carver

#7. How one responds in these dire circumstances says a lot about one's faith and the strength of one's beliefs.

Tim Hiller

#8. To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Janet Erskine Stuart

#9. It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark ... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

Kim Elizabeth

#10. What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.

Lauren Conrad

#12. resacas have all gone dry. The entire earth, it seems, is being slowly transformed into

Philipp Meyer

#13. What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.

Rod Coronado

#14. Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

George Eliot

#15. I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

Daesung

#16. Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

Parker J. Palmer

#17. I tell jokes to pay my green fees.

Bob Hope

#18. Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

Dalai Lama

#19. The Beatles gave me everything. Especially Paul McCartney. I adore him.

Ozzy Osbourne

#20. Brahma emerged from the right side of Mahesa, Vishnu from the left and Nilarudra from his heart. In the beginning, intoning AUM, Sadasiva created the universe. Siva is Pranava and Pranava is Siva.

Ramesh Menon