Nipsey Quotes

#1. My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

Jill Scott

#2. Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

Nipsey Hussle

#4. Writers read. Writers read promiscuously, aggressively and relentlessly.

Gina Barreca

#5. Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

Nipsey Russell

#6. If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

Nipsey Hussle

#7. I respect Snoop even aside from the music, just as a man, and especially the way he still represents who he is, after being a pop star and an icon. He's done it successfully and has still been able to balance it.

Nipsey Hussle

#8. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Nipsey Hussle

#9. Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

Peter Ellis

#10. On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I've heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it.

Pat Condell

#11. My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

Nipsey Hussle

#12. I start with the joke line and write backward.

Nipsey Russell

#13. [In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

Nipsey Hussle

#14. THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.

Demetri Martin

#15. How uninteresting interesting things can become.

Robert Walser

#16. What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Robert Frost

#17. I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

Nipsey Hussle

#18. A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it's real hard for 'em.

Nipsey Hussle

#19. I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

Nipsey Russell

#20. If you owe too much on American Express,
and your Diner's Club notes are too hard,
take a loan on your Visa,
and pay it off with your MasterCard!

Nipsey Russell

#21. Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you know the Divine laws.

Nirmala Srivastava

#22. I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.

Nipsey Hussle

#23. All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me

Nipsey Hussle

#24. On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

Nipsey Hussle

#25. The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War',
and I'm beginning to think they're right.
For war costs millions of dollars a day,
and love
just a few bucks a night!

Nipsey Russell