Top 61 Quotes & Sayings by Earl Sweatshirt
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.
My world is kind of small.
I'm a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code.
Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.
Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'
I always enjoyed being made uneasy, and I was into anything that was off-putting. I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it always seemed more exciting than those things that made you feel comfortable.
I'm blessed to have a platform that allows me to speak to many at once. I recognize that I can make consciousness a tangible thing for young people.
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.
Drake loves moms.
I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do five-syllable words, I don't do four-syllable words. This is English. Rudimentary English.
I'm not a person that garners a whole lot of attention.
Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.
When I was little, when I was a kid, I used to sit in front of the TV and just say what the TV says. It's how I got good at imitating people.
Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.
I've heard 'Piano Man.' That song is pretty cool.
At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
I didn't have a dad coming up. I didn't have someone to be scared of.
It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
Toronto is like a city of grandmas.
You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.
It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much, and it's overwhelming.
I'll always regret how I recorded 'Burgundy' 'cause it's not how I felt. The words that were coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.
People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
One day I hope to not have a Twitter, to be sick enough that I don't have to use the Internet.
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me.
All rappers are princesses like me.
My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.
Throughout 'Doris,' and while I was recording it, you could hear I was apprehensive towards everything. I can't explain it. It wasn't fun; it was like I had to do it.
Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.
When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.
At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess.
The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.
I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.
You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.
Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.
That sums up why it's crazy to meet Paul McCartney because he's the type of n - - that needs that.
SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.
My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.
"Centurion" is probably one of my favorites [of RZA Day ].
Touring with the record out - shows are so much more fun now that n - - s know what I'm talking about.
In a world where like everyone's so accessible now, to say something new in an article that you can't find out about a n--- through his Twitter or like Googling him or some s--- is rare. Just like how a good song is rare.
Shout out to the fathers that didn't raise us
I don't know why it's difficult to admit that I miss you.
I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relateds for it. So it's been a lot of random jazz s - - lately. Like I found Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ahmad Jamal, s - - like that. So that's been very tight.
Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins
Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.
The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.
I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.
I'm the bestest/on a bad day I spit asbestos.
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