Quotes About J Cole

#1. If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.

J. Cole

#2. J. Cole's 2014 'Forrest Hills Drive.' The album, artwork, and director of that album was a huge influence on the visuals for 'Homecoming King.'

Hasan Minhaj

#3. I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.

Denzel Whitaker

#4. The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.

Fetty Wap

#5. I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set

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#6. I am different. I am FUCKING DIFFERENT!

Stevie J. Cole

#7. History repeats itself and that's just how it goes,

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#8. I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.

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#9. I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

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#10. No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

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#11. I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

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#12. There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

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#13. So ahead of my time even when i rhyme about the future I be reminiscing

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#14. I never got over you either," I ocnfess, and he draws in a deep breath. "It's because I never would let you go. You felt that, didn't you?" He presses a soft kiss to my lips. "Pienso en ti siempre." I think of you always.

Stevie J. Cole

#15. I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

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#16. Hard to move on when you always regret one.

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#17. I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.

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#18. Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top..
So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop

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#19. I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

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#20. I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

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#21. I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

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#22. If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

J. Michael Straczynski

#23. College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

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#24. We're all broken.

Stevie J. Cole

#25. Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.

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#26. I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

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#27. The same ones you love will bring you pain.

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#28. I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

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#29. Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere

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#30. One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

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#31. There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

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#32. Life changes and molds you with every breath. Death has a way of forcing you to re-evaluate decisions, and fate has a way of shoving your face into everything you've lost.

Stevie J. Cole

#33. The bad news is nothing lasts forever,
The good news is nothing lasts forever.

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#34. You've always been my exception to everything.

Stevie J. Cole

#35. Broken?" I laughed. "Nah, princess. I'm a shattered fucking mess.

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#36. Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

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#37. He's fucking me like he wants to kill me, yet he's kissing me like he wants to love me. The

Stevie J. Cole

#38. Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

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#39. Nothing can ever change that I was yours and you were mine, and for a short period of time, we had something people write books about. We lived love. A love so tragic and beautiful that it's only fitting it doesn't have a happily ever after. I love you.

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#40. I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs ... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.

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#41. I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

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#42. I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

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#43. ...then I wonder, does anyone ever intend on being that kind of person?

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#44. While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile.

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#45. Writing is an art, and true art comes from inspiration, which makes me wonder what kind of fucked-up lives some of my favorite authors have led. Surely

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#46. I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

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#47. You're my perfectly flawed, shattered fucking mess.

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#48. Don't worry, Even Jesus never saw his real father

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#49. I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.

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#50. I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

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#51. I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

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#52. I hadn't talked to myself in a while, but then again, I was all alone. I was my only true supporter. And loneliness is a bitch.

Stevie J. Cole

#53. Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar.

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#54. I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

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#55. The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

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#56. I loved him in a way I doubt I will ever love another man, and I know that because I've hated him more than I've ever hated anyone before. Hate is a product of failed love only when you can't find it in you to let go. And you know what? I fucking hate him because I love him.

Stevie J. Cole

#57. My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

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#58. I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

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#59. I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.

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#60. Find something to help you accept reality. Because after all, that's where the pain's come from - from reality.Find something good, something magnificent, find you something meaningful to fill that hole that's ate you up on the inside.

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#61. Addicts say there is never a high as great as that first time, and it's the same with love.

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#62. I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

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#63. You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

J. Michael Straczynski

#64. We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

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#65. If you ain't aim too high, then you aim too low!

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#66. In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'

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#67. My goal is to have that be a haven for families.

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#68. Funny how well-rehearsed you can become at being who everyone thinks you should be.

Stevie J. Cole

#69. I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now,
If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down.

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#70. Love is tragic. Love is painful and brutal, but above all, within true love, there is a beauty matched by nothing else. And what truly is tragic is to never love someone the way I love you.

Stevie J. Cole

#71. The people moving in beat beside us have no idea what awful thing we're doing, what horrible, festering wound we've just ripped back open.

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#72. If I lost your respect ... I'm just hope you don't look at me as something you regret.

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#73. I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

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#74. I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.

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#75. Anything I do, I want to do it well.

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#76. Goody Two-shoes Evie Greene got herself pickled, for true. If I'd known you were such a juvenile delinquent, I might've asked for a new history podna."
"Juvenile delinquent? Hmm. Aren't your initials J.D.? If the shoe fits ...

Kresley Cole

#77. Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

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#78. Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

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#79. The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

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#80. To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is.

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#81. You lose a love like this and you'll never find it again. Never.

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#82. I'll be dammed if I sit around another year, Dreamin' dreams hopin' somehow that they just appear.

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#83. As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.

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#84. My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

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#85. I want people to follow their dreams, yes ... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers ... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

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#86. This is my canvas, imma paint it how I want to baby

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#87. We lived love. A love so tragic and beautiful that it's only fitting it doesn't have a happily ever after.

Stevie J. Cole

#88. They say time is money but really it's not
If we ever go broke, then time is all we got
And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back

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#89. I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

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#90. I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

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#91. I'm already hot, you could say I'm pre-heated. If money talks, mine's telling your's to 'be seated

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#92. No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

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#93. I've given myself over to a devil, and God help me, all of the misery has been worth it for this very fucking moment.

Stevie J. Cole

#94. Cause you a star - no, not the type that snort the white lines
I mean the type to light the night time

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#95. I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

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#96. I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your head up. I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.

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#97. Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.

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#98. I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

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#99. Tupac was just so passionate about what he believes in and not afraid to say anything.

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#100. It wasn't my place to stop you. You had another guy's ring on your finger. It wasn't my fucking place!" He snatches my hand up, shoving my wedding ring in my face. "The moment you put this ring on your finger, you were no longer mine.

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