Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Chamillionaire - Page 2

I'm an underground mix-tape artist who's had a level of commercial success.

My focus is not necessarily about money as much as people think.

I don't want to be the guy that's sitting here, calling somebody and telling them their dream. I want to be in the seat of the founder.

Not everything works for everybody.

I can do so much more than rap with the rest of my life. there's so much more in this world.

I like to give people information; that's to a fault.

When I was coming up, there was only one way to listen to music, and that was on a Walkman.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

I know how to think outside of the box and be creative.

I don't play 'Farmville'... I play 'Mafia Wars.'

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

Everyone could relate to that feeling of when, even if you've done nothing wrong and you see the police behind you, you get nervous.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

I believe in pushing my records until the wheels fall off.

Technology is power.

Rap got me out of the hood. Rap got me out of Houston and helped me to see the world.

Celebrities need to be talking to the people who are their greatest fans.

I have some ideas for things nobody's done before, and some are ideas bigger than me that I might be able to pull off, maybe.

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

I walked around the music industry for a bunch of years, right? I saw a lot of rich people. I didn't see wealthy. I got into the tech industry, I see wealthy every day.

Hotels are nice and everything, but there's no place like home.

Me and a few others like Big Boi from Outkast and Trey Songz were excited about the ride-sharing space. This was around 2014, we started making the steps to get in touch with Lyft and did our investment in 2015.

When I get to the stage, I don't get no kind of weird feeling when everybody starts screaming. It doesn't make me feel superhuman or anything. Me, I never really wanted to be famous like that.

Ridin' was natural, not forced. I didn't try to make a Grammy record.

We as rappers have a job and have to get fans music and let them know about stuff that's coming out. So if everyone migrates to Twitter, that's where we go.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

I am a career artist. A lot of people come by and they fly by night, but I'm gonna prove that I can stay in the game and have some longevity.

I don't want people to love me. I want people to chill and just listen to my music.

I was thinking what happens if I break my leg today? What can I do to prevent me going back to the place of being poor? It led me to the world of venture capitalism. How are they making money? I decided I'm going to learn as much as I can.

Sometimes I ask at concerts, how many of you are on Twitter, and the crowd goes crazy. Then I ask about Facebook, and the crowd goes even more crazy.

I just want to innovate.

Scarface, I don't think, has done anything in his whole career to tarnish his legacy.

There are a lot of people that have great ideas that want to create disruptive companies that change the world but everybody doesn't have the skills to be able to do that.

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.

Slick Rick has always been one of those guys real good at telling stories.

I'm a rapper to a lot of people. But I'm also someone who is very entrepreneurial.

People can see it when you're honest and sincere.

I think a lot of people feel like they still have something to prove, because when you get in and you're chasing success, you always feel like you have something to prove. But at this point, I feel like an underdog, and I actually like being in that position.

If I asked you something about basketball and you don't really know about basketball and you try to talk it and fake it, I'm going to be able to tell. It's the same way about music; you have to be real.

Every now and then, I might listen to music, but I try not to listen to it too much because when you turn on the radio and hear the same song over and over again. You won't appreciate it as much; it won't be as fresh.

What's life if you're not enjoying it?

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

You have to stay focused because a lot of things will break your confidence. But if you stay focused and want it bad enough you can achieve. I know that sounds like a PBS special, but it's true, straight up.

I'll step in an airport just now, and people will recognize me. I'm in Harlem on 144th and whatever, and people are coming up to me like, "What's up, Chamillionaire?" And seeing it grow is, nothing turning into something, that feeling is a really good feeling.

A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

I might tell a story about somebody else, but I don't sit there and do a story about somebody snitching on me selling coke because people know I didn't sell coke. So I just try to keep it real but still try to do it in a creative way.

Eminem's rhyme patterns are super dope and he can squeeze a million words in a couple bars. Crazy creative. His voice changes alot though.

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

They see me rollin’, they hatin’

A moment will pass, but a movement will last.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

The visual is everywhere in the streets, but in the industry, it's like you have to show up at this party and you can't take on the world in one day. It's a gradual process, but you can't let it frustrate you; you just have to keep grinding.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

I feel that success is the best revenge in this world.

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.