Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by apl.de.ap - Page 2

There is some gangsta music I like, like Biggie Smalls - he reminds me of Slick Rick -doing the same thing, but he did it in a really artistic way.

My friends, they can't beat me in pool or bowling.

I actually got to go back to where I was born and perform there. I just brought my mom up onstage and was like, 'Look, here we are.'

Someday' talks about a dream of mine.

I wanted to be an engineer or a nurse.

Building virtual classrooms was the brainchild of Charity Dreams. So many people play games online, it's a huge business - and so harnessing the power of the Charity Dreams community to help build classrooms just made a lot of sense.

Me, I'm just gonna keep spreading the word about 'We Can Be Anything' campaign among Fil-Am communities in the U.S.

Queen Latifah once came up to me and said 'Bebot' was her favorite song. She said, 'I don't know what you're talking about, but it feels dope!'

I believe that there are many talented Filipinos and their talent is great and globally competitive, just waiting to be tapped. I don't want such great talent to be wasted.

I want the kids in the Philippines to compete with the world, with other kids out there, to have the opportunity. You never know, you might find the next Black Eyed Peas out there.

Our stuff is more about being positive, but not in a preachy way.

Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will make some kind of change.

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

Not only I am an adoptee, but I also want to prove to everyone that being legally blind with a rare eye disease called Nystagmus that you can do and be anything if you put your mind to it and believe in yourself.

Music gave me that neutral lane to relate with everyone.

There's the fine line between presenting your culture and learning about other cultures so it becomes global.

I'm good at shapes. If I'm not close, even if it's big, I can't read it.

We wanted to make music to fit with the way we live and celebrate life.

I was sponsored to go to the U.S. and became a Black Eyed Peas, and now I'm paying it forward and helping other children like me.

We want to show people in the U.S. and Europe that hey, here in Southeast Asia, we have so much artists brimming with talent and so deserving. We needed to tap into that so that the West can take notice and sign them up, too.

My computer's the first thing I'd save if my house was burning down.

I can do somersaults and back flips.

Coming from the Philippines, my whole goal was to support my family and have a better living situation.

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

Growing up, I've always kinda been into academics.

But when I discovered music, I knew that that's what I wanted to do in my life and I just jumped in all the way and pursued my dreams as a musician.

Stan Lee is like the universal hero. He got every culture together by storytelling. He gave every community their own hero to follow, in fiction and actually in factual life.

There's no reason but luck that I'm in one of the biggest bands in music.

I have been a product and a beneficiary of the creative industry.

Filipinos are naturally creative and artistic.

I would take the jeepney all the way to Angeles City, and that's how I got introduced to break dancing.

Be authentic about what you produce and there will always be an audience.

We come up with slogans on the road and then we start putting them on the songs.

I'm proud of who I am, where I came from, what I was born into, and I would represent that till I die.

It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that's 10 times harder.

All my life, I believe in overcoming challenges.

Being adopted was my motivation to help others by first becoming successful.

I like to be hands-on because that's what motivates me. I like to involved from the ground-breaking to ribbon-cutting to auditing the funds. Just giving money away is a little discouraging because I don't know where it is going.

The Peapod Foundation provides tools and mentors encouraging children to express themselves through music and art.

When a window closes another one opens

I doubted myself for a long time... I'm comfortable not using my vision. I weave around my problems.

The Philippines is where the love is.