Quik Quotes

#1. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

Talib Kweli

#2. Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.

C.J. Mahaney

#3. It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Carla Bley

#4. Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.

DJ Quik

#5. I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.

DJ Quik

#6. I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

DJ Quik

#7. Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.

DJ Quik

#8. A friend is by definition an unpaid therapist.

Erin McCarthy

#9. I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted to draw a timeline between my old stuff and my new stuff and bridge it to where there's a level of continuity.

DJ Quik

#10. I feel like if I'm not going to change the game or do something innovative, then I'm not motivated.

DJ Quik

#11. I used to throw mad parties because I had all this damn money! Some of them got out of hand. People wanted to fight, steal necklaces off of people's necks. A little weird. I had to have armed security at my house. I was young, 21, 22.

DJ Quik

#12. ... my body ... faithful guardian of a past which my mind should never have forgotten, brought back before my eyes ....

Marcel Proust

#13. To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.

DJ Quik

#14. Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

Reed Hastings

#15. Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars ... that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.

Frederick Lenz

#16. The parties happen when we book the studio. That's a safe place. Get alcohol, food, girls, homies, and have these small listening parties while I'm recording. And that energy always gets into the music.

DJ Quik

#17. You can't hate somebody for the rest of their lives over one mistake.

DJ Quik

#18. I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave,
to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay

DJ Quik

#19. The key to success is to be easy to work with.

DJ Quik

#20. I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

Kid Cudi

#21. Me like to smoke the bud but my eyes they get all red, my senses get dull and me forget what i said, me find my joint now and me want to take a toke, let take a long hit, hold the smoke untill me choke!

DJ Quik

#22. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds. That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.

DJ Quik

#23. The motivation sometimes comes when you least expect it. I try to keep an open mind.

DJ Quik

#24. I don't think you should ever give up on trying to push the bar a little bit higher.

DJ Quik

#25. You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music.

DJ Quik