Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by G-Eazy - Page 2

That raw connection between the two performers is something you can't fully plan. You just go with it and get lost in that moment and feed off of each other.

You have to be dope; you have to find an audience and reach that audience with your identity and your message.

I grew up watching Kobe Bryant.

My friends put me on to Mobb Deep when I was a little kid. I've always been a big fan.

When I was 12 or 13, the hyphy movement was beginning to bubble. And you had local acts such as the Federation or E-40, Mac Dre, and Too Short that the local radio station would play all the time. You'd hear E-40 as much as you'd hear Jay Z.

I'm really attracted to girls who are passionate about music because that's what I'm obsessed with.

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

It's an honor to be able to tour with somebody I grew up listening to and somebody I look up to. When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.

I don't want to be a small-time, independent, successful rapper.

My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It's a combination of everything I'm inspired by.

I played shows in front of like 25, 50 people, and it's a lot harder to do your thing in front of a crowd that's small.

I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.

We used to approach a small 400-person show like an arena show, as if I was a star and I was coming out on stage in front of screaming people and that I was to be larger than life.

I feel like if you're stuck doing the same thing your whole career you've got to be doing something wrong. Unless you're getting great results from it or you're just comfortable in that spot.

The thing is, I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted to be an Elvis Presley or a Tupac - like, a huge icon.

I'm just making music, and I'm paying my bills.

It's our approach to treat each show like an arena show. We over-invest in production to make the stage look bigger, turning the show into an experience and not just somebody standing around with a microphone rapping.

The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.

There's only so much you can do on a physical level trying to tour or pass out mixtapes. Although that matters, I realized that you can reach more people putting your music on Soundcloud and networking with blogs to write about you. It really comes back to the music and what you release.

New money is something fun to celebrate if you never had it.

Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

When I sample something, it's just me drawing from what I'm actually into. It's whatever sounds like a good track.

Being in a position to bring people together like we do is a beautiful thing.

I've always dreamt big and the dream is to keep making music.

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.

When you're literally staring at the person right in front of you, you're connecting with them on a personal level. I even jump into the crowd sometimes and perform with them, sing into the mic with them and share the experience with them.

I actually went to high school with Lil Uno.

It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part of this - but I'll always get deeper than that as an artist.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

I grew up with the Pack. When they released 'Vans,' it was a seeing-is-believing moment.

When you're from the Bay Area, there's this chip on your shoulder that you inherently come up with, because us, as a region, we've been overlooked in the grand scheme of the history of the genre and the culture.

If we're deciding about merch pieces, t-shirts or hats, they have to be well designed and cool enough for somebody to want to buy it and then wear it and walk around advertising me and my music.

Me personally, I'm real close to my mom. She raised me. It was a single-parent home situation. She did everything: cooked, worked two jobs, came home late, but she loved me to death.

Some people will like it. Some people will hate it. Some people are indifferent. And you have to live with that as an artist. You wanna be appreciated, you wanna be liked, but you know, it's just not realistic for everyone.

We're really critical with the process of who we hire. But when you put great people in position, that's how you avoid any missteps.

Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist's autobiography.

For whatever reason, it's easier to perform in front of a massive crowd than in front of a small one, but again, that's how we came up.

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

We listen to oldies when we go on tour. Beach Boys radio was really clutch; that was definitely our favorite Pandora station.

I think you should always push yourself to want to grow and learn more and be inspired and develop.

I'm aware that there are a million other people who want what I'm lucky enough to have right now.

If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.

It's on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.

I thought everybody unanimously hated this man. I don't know anyone who was like, 'Go Trump.' I was surprised.

I got my start in small dive bars in New Orleans.

Growing up in the Bay, I was still looking for a lot of East Coast hip-hop. I had an older homie put me on to a lot of stuff like Nas' 'Illmatic.'

As we've added players to the team, like a videographer, a drummer, or a sound guy, we're trying to keep a bus full of A players and keep a culture where everybody is comfortable enough to push each other in their areas to be great.

It's just crazy to look back at what I was wearing in high school.

I would never consider myself a role model in the wide sense of the word.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

I grew up in Oakland, California, and there was a really active scene in the Bay Area. Everyone else knew it as the 'Hyphy Movement' of Mac Dre, E-40, and The Pack.

I don't go in the studio to make music that won't matter. I go in every night to try to make a point and make the best music that I can make.

I think my music is so personal that it lets people in. And they identify with me more because of that, you know, so it's like my story; it's who I am as a person.

I wanna put numbers on the board. And the thing that everybody doesn't get is that it just doesn't happen. It doesn't just fall out of the air and land on your lap; the only way to get it is to get it and put the work in.

I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.

You don't need mainstream media outlets, the big TV looks, or the magazine covers.

I've seen what you can do in this grassroots, do-it-yourself world, and I've seen how far that can get you. To be iconic, you still need the gatekeepers to open the doors.