Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Denzel Curry

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Denzel Curry.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Denzel Rae Don Curry is an American rapper. Born and raised in Carol City, Florida, Curry started rapping while in the sixth grade and began working on his first mixtape in 2011. Influenced by underground Florida rapper SpaceGhostPurrp, the mixtape was later featured on Purrp's social media, giving Curry attention in the local music scene and resulting in him joining Purrp's hip-hop collective Raider Klan.

American - Musician | Born: February 16, 1995

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'Threatz' was when I stepped into my own as an individual and one of the first songs we put on SoundCloud.

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My parents were really into music. They would play the Funkadelics, Parliament, OutKast; they would just play that all around the house. They'd also play Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, James Brown.

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Raider Klan was crazy because we all had our own personalities and our own little worlds when it came down to this music. It was the first step to creating your own weird little universe.

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I'm very optimistic about the future.

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I just feel like nobody truly understands who I am as a person. They think it's one thing, but they get another. I feel like nobody fully comprehends who I am as a person, as a man, as a living organism in this world.

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I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

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I don't judge nobody.

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I'm sponsored by Nike and stuff.

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If shoes are brought to my attention, and I like them, I'm going to rock them for a long time.

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I'm not tryna save no one. I just hope my music helps, and I hope the message that's behind it helps people, you feel me?

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I live more than a double life, honestly. I have so many personalities, I live more than a double life.

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I went from following people to being on my own. Once I was on my own, I watched people start liking me, and I watched people stop liking me. Everything was supposed happen. It was all supposed to reveal itself.

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I've learned there's a difference between friends and associates.

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Everybody was down on me saying I can't rap, so I wanted to show everybody that I could actually do this. That's what motivated me.

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'Nostalgic' was just all my influences and me just being like, 'Yo, I'm going to be the hardest one out of everybody.'

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I did karate.

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I grew up in Carol City, Zone 3, for 19 years, in a house with four brothers, a mother and a father.

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People wanna escape the truth sometimes.

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I started finishing 'Nostalgic' while trying to graduate at the same time. I graduated from high school, got my diploma, and my life just started when I completed 'Nostalgic 64.'

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My artist name is actually my real name - Denzel Curry.

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That's what you gonna get with me: the dark aspects of life. Of course, you've got to have some type of light in there, but if it was all light, you'd be blinded. You've got to balance them out.

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I'm not gonna sound like the next person. I could respect your sound, but I could also do my own - you feel me?

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I grew up, like - since I had a lot of brothers, I grew up listening to Hot Boys, Goodie Mob, OutKast, basically all the southern albums, like Silkk the Shocker, Master P, Soulja Slim, and then it just elevated on when I started getting into music and I started listening to Nas and Jay Z and stuff like that and Lupe Fiasco and whatnot.

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Love is always gon' be where home is, but it's also where hate it as well.

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If it's not Fiji water, we don't want it.

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Fans don't know what they want. Fans are like, 'Oh, I want the stuff that you did in the last album because I really liked it, and if you don't do that, I'm not going to be your fan no more.' Or they'll be like, 'I didn't like that project. He doesn't sound like him on it,' or 'You're wack. You're mainstream now.'

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I never wanted to perform like a rapper.

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When I started using SoundCloud, it was just becoming a thing.

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I was the type of kid that wrote all over my shoes.

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I always loved music, and really, I've been rapping since I was, like, 12.

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I have people to keep me grounded. That's very important. And I like the fact that I have people to keep me grounded. I'll never switch on them, they'll never switch on me, and that's what it's going to be.

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If I went to a major, you never know - what if they don't like the stuff I do? I could just get shelved. And then I'm stuck in a contract, and I can't leave. And if that happens, you're gonna realize, you're going to start hating it, so the power with being indie is you could do whatever you want.

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If I have a message to send, I'm going to send it in the most creative and yet crazy way I can.

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Always be true to you. But learn how to adapt, too. That's something I wish I did when I was younger.

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Melody wins every time. Melody is always gonna win.

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Darkness is important. If you were having fun all the time, you wouldn't know what dark is.

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If you look at 'Threatz' and 'Parents,' then you look at 'Zone 3,' all of that is nostalgic.

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I listen to Robb Bank$, not only because he is a South Florida native, but that's my homeboy. I listen to him frequently.

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I've proved with 'TA13OO' that I'm versatile as hell.

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I listen to most South Florida rappers.

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I want to get better at freestyling, to be writing better songs.

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Growing up in Carol City, it was always a creative place for me to be because it was mad influential, especially going to Carol City High.

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Me, l'm a weird person, so my music is kind of weird, but l want my music to be weird.

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I started adapting, and that's how I've been able to stay afloat all these years. It's important to be adaptable.

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You've got to know your surroundings.

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As an Aquarius, I was born an outsider. I'm awkward at social events. I can be social, but I feel like nobody truly understands who I am.

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Without Spaceghostpurrp, you wouldn't have people like Seshollowaterboys - you wouldn't have people like me; you wouldn't have people like ASAP - if it weren't for him.

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White man get money - stay rich, kids get rich. Black man get money - it's the countdown till, 'When is this brother gonna go broke?' I'm not going broke.

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The thing about abuse is it's just a cycle of hatred. The person who is gonna abuse you has been abused, and he continues that same cycle of hatred.

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I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out of there, because my music is so different from anybody else who came out of there.

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People used to laugh at me like, 'Hahaha, you can rap? You? We don't believe it!'

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I fear God. If my time comes, my time comes.

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People want to see what you going to come with next, and I gotta keep evolving.

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'Imperial' is me attempting to reach my ultimate form and to introduce a lifestyle of truth to my fans, be honest with yourself, and you will grow, ULT.

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Carol City has its hot moments, and it has its cool moments. If you were from one area of Carol City, people didn't mess with you.

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I'm a weirdo, but everybody's weird in some kind of way.

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The best Christmas that l had was probably when I got my Xbox. When I first got an Xbox, it was, like, the very first Xbox when it came out.

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I'm not saying I'm trying to be the best. I'm gonna be the best. The best me ever. To the point where I can't lose at being me. I can't lose that life.

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You can't expect somebody to speak out on a certain subject. If they want to say something about it, then say something about it. But artists have a choice. It's their choice. I choose the stuff I talk about, but it's not my responsibility to do it.

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With 'Clout Cobain,' when I made the song, I knew what I wanted to say. But I was gonna say it in a way where people could understand it.

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