Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by G-Eazy

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Gerald Earl Gillum, better known by his stage name G-Eazy, is an American rapper. His first major-label album, These Things Happen, was released on June 23, 2014, and peaked at number 3 on the US Billboard 200. It featured the single "I Mean It", which reached number 98 on the Billboard Hot 100. His second studio album, When It's Dark Out, was released on December 4, 2015, and peaked at number 5 on the US Billboard 200. It featured the single "Me, Myself & I", which reached number 7 of the US Billboard Hot 100.

American - Celebrity | Born: May 24, 1989

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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

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I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

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It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.

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I hate picking out clothes.

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I've always been an outsider to some extent.

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I'm just doing the only thing I know how to do. There was never a plan B.

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Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.

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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.

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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.

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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.

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Music is one of the toughest industries, so I respect everybody who has travelled any distance, come far in this music business and achieved anything because it is so hard, and there are so many people out there these days.

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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.

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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

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I stick with a '60s vintage aesthetic of letterman's jackets, plain T-shirts, and good jeans.

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I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

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What I actually do put much more weight on, in all honesty, is not being critically acclaimed - it's being respected by my OGs. When I talk to E-40 on the phone, every time I talk to him, I'm like, you know, if he tells me I'm doing good, I'm doing good.

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Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, 'These Things Happen' - what can I say?

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I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.

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I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

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You'd die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can't; no one can.

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I've never fit in anywhere in my life. Ever.

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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

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Time is a finite resource that you can't get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity.

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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

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I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

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You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.

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I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.

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I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.

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Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.

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I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

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In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.

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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.

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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

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What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.

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It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'

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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

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I've never been critically acclaimed. I've never been nominated for no Grammy. I've never been on no magazine cover. It's almost taboo to say I'm actually good.

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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

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If you're not out living, then you've got nothing to talk about.

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I just have more Yves Saint Laurent in my closet, but it is pretty much the same - I just wear black almost 365 days of the year. I am married to it.

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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

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When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.

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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

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The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.

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I think if you're constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you can continue to tour. You can continue to sell the merch and monetize the popularity of the brand.

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I'm on Tumblr all the time.

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My mom was a single parent.

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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

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A halfway decent haircut will go a long way!

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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

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I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

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Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by G-Eazy

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