The Hip Quotes

#1. I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

Bubba Sparxxx

#2. I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.

Robert Glasper

#3. I think there's a lot of the hip-hop crowd behind Barack Obama because he's a black man. Honestly, I'm rooting for Hillary because race is only going to go so far. All the presidents are men at the end of the day.

Lupe Fiasco

#4. We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people who are under qualified. It's like they just got a pair of new jeans..They just started wearing them below their belt 2 months ago.

MC Hammer

#5. I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

Fab Five Freddy

#6. Most athletes with lower back pain or hamstring strains have poor hip or lumbo-pelvic mechanics and as a result must extend or flex the lumbar spine to make up for movement unavailable through the hip.

Michael Boyle

#7. I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

Jim Thorpe

#8. I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.

Reggie Miller

#9. I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

Nikki Giovanni

#10. In the history of the hip hop world ... there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

Nicki Minaj

#11. Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

Jesse H. Jones

#12. They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.

Sari Botton

#13. The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.

Karen McDougal

#14. Yeah loads of bruises and welts, usually around the hip, arse, thigh region and elbows. Elbows got knocked up big time, but it was so much fun. I hadn't done a meaty action film in seven or eight years, so it was fun to explore that aspect of storytelling again.

Colin Farrell

#15. I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership role within the hip-hop community.

Lil' Kim

#16. You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because whatever you do is right. They're not gonna have like 20 hip-hop violinists in the company. I know what to do.

Miri Ben-Ari

#17. Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

Alicia Keys

#18. Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.

Misty Copeland

#19. The town's young parents especially prized this idea of Newton as a child's paradise. Many of them had left the hip, sophisticated city to move here. They had accepted massive expenses, stultifying monotony, and the queasy disappointment of settling for a conventional life. To

William Landay

#20. Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.

Jonathan Galassi

#21. I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

SonReal

#22. When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

Dan Auerbach

#23. Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

Aesop Rock

#24. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

William Shakespeare

#25. Do you mind if we stop at the Hip Hop Shop? Bess asked pleadingly.

Carolyn Keene

#26. My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.

Lee Daniels

#27. I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.

Kay Panabaker

#28. 15, 16, I mean, 17, 18, is when I was really getting into the hip hop phase and really studying the things that I needed to study as far as learning about flows and learning about lyrics.

Drake

#29. My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

Sean Paul

#30. The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.

Keith Sweat

#31. That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#32. I toured with Skrillex, did an HBO commercial with Diplo. In the hip hop movement, I was the first artist Travis Scott ever featured with before he blew up. I had the songs with Chris Brown and Tyga. I've worked with some of the biggest artists in the world.

Wynter Gordon

#33. My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Mike Mills

#34. The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

Killer Mike

#35. God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

Charles Bukowski

#36. I know about graffiti,' I say, and the words come out as if I'm an old lady saying she likes the hip-hop.

Cath Crowley

#37. My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.

El-P

#38. I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music ... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'

Jenny Lewis

#39. My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Pink

#40. I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

ASAP Rocky

#41. Maybe it was the hip-sprung way she moved, high-assed and shiny, alert to surfaces, like a character in a B movie soaked in alimony and gin.

Don DeLillo

#42. Three years after my birth, my mother swells again. When Lanka is born and brought home, Shiva and I gaze over the edge of the bassinet at this strange, alien creature and claim her as our own. We are a threesome from then on. Joined at the hip. A pyramid. A triangle.

Nayomi Munaweera

#43. If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.

John Cena

#44. When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing to do for male models.'

River Viiperi

#45. I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

Maya Angelou

#46. I'm on a weird quest to be sort of famous, like an indie movie star that only the hip people like to chat about.....I want to be underground famous," she wrote on Grrl, before working on her Sith promotions - she's genuinely on "our side.

Anne Elizabeth Moore

#47. When you have one kid, you feel like you can jet set around, and you can throw him on the hip, and you get your life done. You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious - I am responsible for two people now.

Elizabeth Banks

#48. All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

Brian Austin Green

#49. I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

Heavy D

#50. The hip-hop guy nodded curtly, like he knew that, and despite appearances to the contrary, he had not been trippin', but had, in fact, been chillin' like a mo-fuckin' villain, so step the fuck off, wigga. He crossed against the light, limping slightly under the weight of the subtext.

Christopher Moore

#51. I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

Nas

#52. When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other.

Curtis Jackson

#53. In film, I think that you do have a little more time to invest in the character compared to television, where you are shooting from the hip and making quick choices. It is the speed of things that is the major difference - certainly in my experience.

Henry Ian Cusick

#54. I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.

Kevin Pietersen

#55. Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

Method Man

#56. Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

Warren Buffett

#57. I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

Patti LaBelle

#58. I got a lot of friends that come up off the strip for me. The same ones that'll come up off the hip for me.

Drake

#59. Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it ... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

Jerry Rubin

#60. A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

Merrill Markoe

#61. Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game,

Tony Yayo

#62. People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

Michael Franti

#63. I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it, and how my upbringing then shapes my music and being a New York kid and all of that stuff ... that's really the most unique thing I can offer to the music in general.

Hoodie Allen

#64. My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.

Bryan Greenberg

#65. I shoot from the hip.

Gordon Ramsay

#66. 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

#67. In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.

Nick Cannon

#68. As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

Ice-T

#69. In the past, before the physiology of abdominal training was well understood, bodybuilders used to do a lot of "conventional" abdominal exercises such as Sit-Ups and Leg Raises. Unfortunately, those are not primary abdominal exercises but instead work the iliopsoas muscles - the hip flexors.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#70. I shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip. - AC/DC

Stephen King

#71. Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

Chuck D

#72. I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing.

Spencer Pratt

#73. At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who he was. I'm the hip-hop version of him.

Nayvadius Cash

#74. I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.

Nas

#75. From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

Lee Grant

#76. My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo.

Miri Ben-Ari

#77. I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

A-Trak

#78. Michael Jordan is sort of ... the hip-hop version of Dr. J

Michael Jordan

#79. I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

Dustin Diamond

#80. A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

Roy Ayers

#81. He was wearing a blue tracksuit that had a white tick mark embroidered at the hip, as if he approved of something. It

Manu Joseph

#82. When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Afrika Bambaataa

#83. Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.

Lynn Johnston

#84. It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.

Henry Samueli

#85. No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Wyclef Jean

#86. I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

Wyclef Jean

#87. More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

Vanilla Ice

#88. Sales and marketing need to be joined at the hip, and aligned around the customer.

Donal Daly

#89. I leave the hip thrusts to Michael Jackson.

Justin Bieber

#90. I wanted draw the cartoon characters, and then it all started to make sense as I was watching these classics come back to the theater like Lady and the Tramp and so forth. If you want to animated the dog, you have to know where the ribcage is and the hip bone and all that.

Andreas Deja

#91. Only death can cure the hip dilettante.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#92. A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.

Marianne Williamson

#93. You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.

Nikki Giovanni

#94. We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

Bootsy Collins

#95. I urge everyone to be patient and reasonable and I warn against shooting from the hip in the truest sense of the term. Pressure and dialogue are needed.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#96. I hate to see somebody get locked up, especially someone as talented as Lil Wayne. You know Wayne is a strong figure in the hip-hop marketplace, and for him to go away for 8 months, you know it's sad for hip-hop as a whole.

Fabolous

#97. When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

Tasha Smith

#98. I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.

Tommy Lee

#99. I took the right leg of that woman's body, from the knee to the hip took the fat off and ate it while he stared at the other girl. When I bit into it she just urinated right there.

Arthur Shawcross

#100. Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.

Andy Bell