Top 146 Quotes & Sayings by Chance The Rapper - Page 2

I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.

I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.

I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.

I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.

I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.

I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'

I'm a big R&B guy. I'm a huge R. Kelly fan.

'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.

Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.

I love theater, and I've always been a huge movie buff.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

If I was to buy a suit, I'd probably go to Men's Wearhouse - because you're going to like the way you look; they guarantee it.

I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

I would never run for any office or government position. I'm not into it.

One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.

We've been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you're always trying to find that end. So 'my shot' is speaking of a variety of shots. When you're a rapper, you look at every shot as the one you're supposed to take.

I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.

Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.

I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.

I'm a patriarch now. I've got to go get the bread.

I don't want to say this in a lame way, but D. Rose is one of my heroes. His whole story and background and what he's done for communities in Chicago is super inspiring.

I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.

I would largely attribute my identity - as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants - to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.

I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.

I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.

I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.

People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.

I am scared of death.

I feel like, at a certain point in life, I'd like to be the type of man that gets married and has more serious relationships.

There was a point where I just did not care about my body.

If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.

When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.

I have a bigger voice than Donald Trump, you know what I'm saying? Than literally anybody that works in politics.

When you become a parent, you start loving diapers.

I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their craft and trying to help them avoid the pitfalls of the upper management in music and the non-music side of music.

I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.

You can love somebody through anything when they're your child, and now that I understand that, it makes me work better with people; it makes me more understanding of how much dedication and love I can put into each line. There's no throwaway lines.

I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.

Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.

When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of it, like, 'This is Christian rap. I'm not trying to hear it.' But it's the total opposite: People were very accepting of it.

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

I'm a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room where you have to challenge Kanye is scary - but it's also life-affirming.

I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.

I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.

I want my music to be beautiful.

I just get sick very easily.

I can't really speak on her policies, but I feel a certain connection to Hillary Clinton that's just not there with Donald Trump.

I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.