Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Jadakiss - Page 2

It's bigger than the music. You have to have a personality, you have to have a character you have to have a good rapport with people. Those are things that also give you longevity.

There's a lot of one-hit wonders and a lot of come-and-go artists and even the labels give up on you after a couple years.

My mom and pop took me to the Apollo Theater on my thirteenth birthday to see Heavy D and Keith Sweat. It was late at night, up on 125th Street, and it was crazy!

It's a business, when you understand what's going on in America, you'll know that the way they portrayed 9/11 to happen, is definitely not what happened. Do I know what happened? Definitely not.

That's one of the luxuries of being able to do mixtapes, it's that you can do something different or you can do anything you want to do, how you're feeling at the time.

The music I do is for the streets.

You can't mix your personal feelings up with your job or it'll hurt you in the long run.

You have to give the crowd energy to feed off of and they will give it back. If you go on stage acting sluggish and nonchalant, that's how the crowd will be. But if you let them know you appreciate them and do call and response, you'll get a good reception.

You don't get what you ask for, you get what you negotiate in this business.

Some people can only freestyle, some people can only make certain types of songs. I can do it all.

The 'Ignatius' album means a lot to me - it celebrates the life of my brother Icepick Jay, another one we lost too soon.

I encourage young artists to learn the business.

Well, my family used to live in Atlanta a few years back so I always had a good relationship with all the artists down there, as well as artists from Houston and Memphis, before the South took over, I was already like a family member of the South so there's always love.

Learn the business as much as you can before you sign anything.

Kids give you their most honest opinion and that's a beautiful thing. They don't care about hurting your feelings, they're just getting their point across whether they like it or not and sometimes you need that.

Politics runs music more than talent runs music.

If you've got the power of the streets and the people, anything can happen and good music will always come to the top.

I don't care if I get nominated for fifty-eight Grammys, the day I can't go back to where I came from, I quit.

You gotta keep working, baby. You gotta work. I got kids, I got bills, I like nice things - always buying cars and watches. I'm a sneaker-head.

I don't need the big accolades when I die. Hit me with a couple good little ones: Kiss, one of the best voices in rap history.

A lot of dudes have success, overnight success or one-year success but not many have ten, fifteen, twenty in this game so when you can do that is when I look up to you.

It's hard to make a career.

A limo is corny. It's extra long. You feel stiff when you get out.

My voice is my own instrument that I use to rap.

It's definitely a beautiful thing to have a little trademark or something that sets you out from everybody else.

I give you everything you want as an artist, for so long. Consistency. Wordplay. Wittiness. You can check the checklist. Only thing I don't check off on is album sales.

I think every artist, producer, believe's that it's going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear that you not gonna make it.

My mom had wild records, like Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson and the Whispers. But the first record I bought was 'Rapper's Delight.' It had a sky-blue cover with a rainbow. My aunt gave me money to get it, and I played it over and over on the record player.

When I create lyrics, I just go off of energy. Sometimes I write down my lyrics on my phone and most times I remember the lyrics in my head.

Controversy sells, politics sell, all that type of stuff sells.

You can't let nobody step on your ego, dismantle your whole image for no reason.

Creating the perfect lyrics is not a process, it's just something that comes in your brain.

Sonically, you gotta experiment sometimes.

Before you drop an album, you need some momentum.

I had one of those tape players with a strap on it and the orange button - the old-school recorder - and I'd record songs by Roxanne Shante, Run-D.M.C. and Biz, Markie. I'd try and learn the words. I've been rhyming since I was a young fella. I used to win talent shows by break dancing and rapping.

To be critically acclaimed, to get a Grammy, to be on MTV, you gotta talk about current events. You gotta talk about controversy, just stuff people want to hear. At the same time, you gotta get a message across.

If there's five dudes on a song, probably three of them are only really good.

Videos is the worst. Let me make it clear: Videos suck. It sucks making a video. It's happy when it's over and edited and online, but making it, it ain't really too much fun.

The art of remaining consistent is keeping your ear to the street and the new music. Embracing the culture for what it is. You can't get a nice heat wave and then forget about the people. The more you put out music, the more strength and power you possess.

I'm a perfect driver.

People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song.

If you make good music, people believe in you, but you have to have your websites poppin', you got to be on these blogs, you got to be at all these types of events. You got to be everywhere, and doing everything, and the more they see and hear you, the more chance you have at success.

I ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I don't even really want them all over my album or anything like that.

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

I'm raspy, and if I wasn't a smoker, I'd still be raspy. My pops has a raspy voice, and my grandfather.

We're all in the same game, just different levels. Dealing with the same hell, just different devils.

Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn.

Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder.

Respect, brotherhood - the family comes first, and everything else falls in place after that.

Records should come from feelings. You shouldn't try to do nothing; it should just come out how you feel.

What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like and what I can.

And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.

Never say can't, its better to try

I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.

You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews* Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh) Cause I leave you, I'm only here For that green paper which lead you

Better believe that, whenever I see y'all I'ma test ya Only cause I know that faggots respect pressure

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.