Top 148 Quotes & Sayings by Future - Page 3

My kids need to be around me. And the times that I'm out of town, if I'm not too busy, they can come to me.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.

I want that longevity in the career, so if you don't know how to get it, you trying to chase that high, you trying to continue to chase your dreams and conquer things you never thought you could get. And you just want to get there too soon, so you taking the wrong moves to try and compensate what's not happening.

I don't even talk about being locked up in any of my songs.

People think fashion shows take hours - it's 15 minutes. You walk in, do red carpet, take the pictures, you sit down... and then it's over.

I'm not trying to feed off of a concept that another artist had - that's not what I do.

I have a crazy work ethic. I'll do 20 songs a day. I love music that much.

I'm most comfortable when I'm in the studio and music playing.

I want to judge the nannies that's around my child. I don't want to pay for a nanny that I never met, that I never got a chance to interview. That's not the life I want for my child. I want to be involved 100 percent in all decisions made. This my flesh and blood.

I want to have bosses around me, 'cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep 'em, you know what I'm saying. So I make my relationships to keep 'em - all my relationships - not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.

When you mix a record that someone else is on, you've got to send it to them. They've got to like the mix, you got to like the mix, the producer's got to like the mix. Too many people are involved!

The most calmest place I can be is the studio. And like, I stay in there 'cause I know, when I come out, it's back to reality. Man, if you're angry all day, man, stay in the studio.

You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.

Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.

The music I make, I'm different.

Artists can most definitely control the culture of fashion. Kids and different fans look up to us for dressing pointers.

I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Everybody just needs a second chance.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles.

My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.

I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.

My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

My die-hard fans who came out - I call them my die-hard fans because any time a fan pays to see you, they have to love what you're doing, respect the craft.