Top 100 Lauryn Quotes
#1. My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.
Ella Eyre
#2. My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
John Legend
#3. Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn't care. I'm really more inspired by their creativity more so than just the cursing. I'm really impressed by clean music.
Lil' Mama
#4. I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.
Banks
#5. I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
Kat Dahlia
#6. Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
Janelle Monae
#7. I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
Lianne La Havas
#8. My look, mind you, is not chocolate like Lauryn Hill, Whoopi Goldberg, or Naomi Campbell - it is pitch black and shimmering like the purple outer space of the universe. I am the charcoal that creates diamonds. I am the blackest black woman (41).
Kola Boof
#9. My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.
Leah LaBelle
#10. Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.
Ellie Goulding
#11. My dream collaboration is with Lauryn Hill. Is that ever gonna happen? Who knows!
Eve
#12. As I've gotten old I've really listened to a wide spectrum of music, whether it's The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z or Lauryn Hill. I've kinda' run the gamut, and in listening to so many different styles, you come to take bits and pieces from all of it.
Brooklyn Sudano
#13. People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.
Talib Kweli
#14. I've been hugely inspired by the songwriting of Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman - on their albums, they really tell it like it is.
Rebecca Ferguson
#15. I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
Boz Scaggs
#16. Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.
Lauryn Hill
#17. Lauryn Hill's always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who's been able to do really amazing pop records with really cool, organic throwback elements of soul in there as well.
Judith Hill
#18. I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.
Lauryn Hill
#19. With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.
Lauryn Hill
#20. Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
Lauryn Hill
#21. I ran very fast in the wrong direction.
Lauryn Hill
#22. I play my enemies like a game of chess
Lauryn Hill
#23. Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
Lauryn Hill
#24. I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."
Lauryn Hill
#25. And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.
Lauryn Hill
#26. You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
Lauryn Hill
#27. The work is constant. There's a time for rest, but I don't believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you've arrived.
Lauryn Hill
#28. When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
Lauryn Hill
#29. How you gone win, when you ain't right within? Uh-uh come again
Lauryn Hill
#30. I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.
Lauryn Hill
#31. A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.
Lauryn Hill
#33. From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
Lauryn Hill
#34. Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
Lauryn Hill
#35. No matter how I think we grow, you always seem to let me know it ain't working, and when I try to walk away you hurt yourself to make me stay, this is crazy
Lauryn Hill
#36. It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
Lauryn Hill
#37. I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.
Lauryn Hill
#38. Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
Lauryn Hill
#39. Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.
Lauryn Hill
#40. I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.
Lauryn Hill
#41. I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
Lauryn Hill
#42. Now the skies could fall
Not even if my boss should call
The world it seems so very small
'Cause nothing even matters at all
Lauryn Hill
#43. I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change
Lauryn Hill
#44. I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.
Lauryn Hill
#46. A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.
Lauryn Hill
#47. It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.
Lauryn Hill
#48. When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
Lauryn Hill
#49. I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.
Lauryn Hill
#50. You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.
Lauryn Hill
#51. My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.
Lauryn Hill
#52. Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.
Lauryn Hill
#53. If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!
Lauryn Hill
#54. It's more important to be righteous than to be right.
Lauryn Hill
#55. My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.
Lauryn Hill
#56. What was freely given to me, I freely give.
Lauryn Hill
#57. I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
Lauryn Hill
#58. I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.
Lauryn Hill
#59. We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.
Lauryn Hill
#60. Whenever we submit our will to someone else's opinion, a part of us dies
Lauryn Hill
#62. I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.
Lauryn Hill
#63. It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!
Lauryn Hill
#64. If I should fall asleep and death takes me away,
Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.
Lauryn Hill
#65. Miscommunication leads to complication.
Lauryn Hill
#66. From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.
Lauryn Hill
#67. There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.
Lauryn Hill
#68. It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars,
Lauryn Hill
#69. I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME
Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees
Lauryn Hill
#70. I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.
Lauryn Hill
#71. As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.
Lauryn Hill
#72. I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
Lauryn Hill
#75. I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.
Lauryn Hill
#76. The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.
Lauryn Hill
#77. In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
Lauryn Hill
#78. We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
Lauryn Hill
#79. You might win some, but you just lost one.
Lauryn Hill
#80. Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
Lauryn Hill
#81. Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.
Lauryn Hill
#82. I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
Lauryn Hill
#83. In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.
Lauryn Hill
#84. Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?
Lauryn Hill
#85. Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.
Lauryn Hill
#86. Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.
Lauryn Hill
#87. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
Lauryn Hill
#88. See no one loves you more than me ... and no one ever will
Lauryn Hill
#89. As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
Lauryn Hill
#90. I had no idea what was in store for me this season. This is the first time I've been a part of a true team sport, and there's someone else counting on you. You can't let that person down, and that's what drives me.
Lauryn Williams
#91. Never underestimate those who you scar.
Lauryn Hill
#92. Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
Lauryn Hill
#93. Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
Lauryn Hill
#94. I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?
Lauryn Hill
#95. I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success.
Lauryn Hill
#96. Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity
Lauryn Hill
#97. I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music ... but the message is still there,
Lauryn Hill
#98. I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.
Lauryn Hill
#99. My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.
Lauryn Hill
#100. I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.
Lauryn Hill
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
