Top 100 Quotes About Jay Z
#1. Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
Jay-Z
#2. Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
Jay-Z
#3. To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.
Jessica Ennis
#4. Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
Jay-Z
#5. I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.
Nicki Minaj
#6. Jealousy's a weak emotion.
Jay-Z
#8. I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.
Jay-Z
#9. I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.
Tinchy Stryder
#10. I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
Jay-Z
#11. No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
J. Cole
#12. I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa,
I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza
Immortal Technique
#13. We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that's a beautiful thing. We're all trading off each other's culture, so no matter what lines you put-country indie rock, rap, we're all somehow gonna find a way to come together.
Jay-Z
#14. I don't see myself beneath Beyonce and Jay Z; I don't see myself above them. I'm in my own world, hungry to grow.
Ciara
#15. I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
T-Pain
#16. It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?
Jay-Z
#17. I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.
Jay-Z
#18. Everybody look at you strange, say you changed
Like you work that hard to stay the same.
Jay-Z
#19. Just when i thought i had everything, i lost it all
Jay-Z
#20. I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.
Drake
#21. We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history
Jay-Z
#22. I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.
Jay-Z
#23. Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
Jay-Z
#24. I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out
Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out
Jay-Z
#25. I love that because that's what I'm supposed to be doing - whether it's accepted b everybody or not. I'm supposed to be pushing that envelope and trying new things. And people are supposed to say, Hov, you might have went too far.
Jay-Z
#26. For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton ... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.
Jay-Z
#27. Without the work, the magic won't come.
Jay-Z
#28. Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.
Jay-Z
#29. I have crushes, but they're all too old. Like Beyonce -she has a husband, I might get shot. I went up to give Beyonce a hug at the Grammys and Jay-Z said, watch out buddy! He was kidding, but you know ...
Justin Bieber
#30. I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z.
Estelle
#31. I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said ... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I'm wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.
Harry Belafonte
#32. I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
Jay-Z
#33. If I could have anybody I haven't had, I'd want to interview somebody like Jay-Z or Puff Daddy, pick their minds a little bit.
Shaun Alexander
#34. Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?
Jay-Z
#35. When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.
Meek Mill
#36. Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
Jay-Z
#37. My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.
Jess Glynne
#38. Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.
Jay-Z
#39. I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z,
Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z,
Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty,
B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too.
You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to
Ab-Soul
#40. You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.
Jay-Z
#41. If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.
Jay-Z
#42. The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Jay-Z
#43. When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.
Jay-Z
#44. If it's time to party, it's time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I'm chilling at home though, I'm listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical.
Alexis Knapp
#45. Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD.
Young Thug
#46. Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.
Jay-Z
#47. Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way.
Jay-Z
#48. Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it
Jay-Z
#49. We give violent movies a pass but come down hard on a rapper like Scarface, who is ultimately a storyteller just like Brian de Palma. And neither of them is responsible for the poverty and violence that really do shape people's lives
not to mention their individual choices.
Jay-Z
#50. I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.
Jhene Aiko
#51. I've hung out with Jay-Z a couple of times, and he was awesome.
Ryan Lochte
#52. [Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#53. Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
And so I put this on my life
Nobody or nothing will ever come between us
And I promise I'll give my life
Jay-Z
#54. No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.
Jay-Z
#56. Just don't go out fighting. I don't need to know where you're going, that's your biz. But if you get yourself killed, I got ninety-nine problems and you're the biggest one of them. Rehv to John
J.R. Ward
#57. I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.
Jay-Z
#58. [Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.
Jay-Z
#59. All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock ... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.
Jay-Z
#60. I believe you can speak things into existence.
Jay-Z
#61. You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind..
Jay-Z
#62. I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call.
Drake
#63. They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
Jay-Z
#64. On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: Royalty, heroism, and the streets.
Jay-Z
#65. I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes.
Jay-Z
#66. I came, I saw, I conquered
From record sales to sold out concerts.
Jay-Z
#67. THEY NEVER TAUGHT MARCUS GARVEY IN OUR SCHOOL CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS THEIR GOLDEN RULE
Jay-Z
#68. I'm trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don't know if there's any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.
J. B. Smoove
#69. The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
Jay-Z
#70. I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.
Travis Morrison
#71. For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.
Jay-Z
#72. Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.
Jay-Z
#73. I got this black chick, she don't know how to act
Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap
She like, Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap
You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me
Jay-Z
#74. [T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.
Jay-Z
#75. Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
Dean Cavanagh
#76. I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.
Tracy Morgan
#77. I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'
Rita Ora
#78. Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.
Jay-Z
#79. I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.
Jay-Z
#80. I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
Vanilla Ice
#81. I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying
Jay-Z
#82. Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.
Jay-Z
#83. Everyone needs a chance to evolve.
Jay-Z
#84. I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.
Antonio Davis
#85. Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!
Jay-Z
#86. Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great.
Rapsody
#87. When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.
Michael Eric Dyson
#88. Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
Jay-Z
#89. This is black superhero music right here, baby!
Jay-Z
#90. As fate would have it, Jay's status appears
To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye
When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.
Jay-Z
#91. In trouble waters I had to learn how to float
Jay-Z
#92. Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.
Jay-Z
#93. No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here
Jay-Z
#94. Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth.
Motherf
. I, will, not, lose.
Jay-Z
#95. I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know.
Jay-Z
#96. I'm pretty sure JAY Z don't wanna rap right now.
Young Thug
#97. Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.
Penn Jillette
#98. To be honest, and this comes out of left field, but I would love to do something with Jay-Z or Eminem. I have no limitations when it comes to the stuff I want to do musically. So to be able to do something like that I think would be really, really cool.
Corey Taylor
#99. We were kids without fathers ... so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves. - Jay-Z
Austin Kleon
#100. I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC.
Jay-Z
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