Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Logic

Ever since I was a little kid, I would always rap. I just loved it. But when I really got into it seriously was when I saw 'Kill Bill.'

I wear my inspirations on my sleeve.

I sacrificed a lot of things growing up.

I want y'all to know that all of the music I make is for the people that truly appreciate it and care about it.

Hate is ugly.

I'm literally fighting for the equality of every man, woman and child regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation and here to spread a message of peace, love, and positivity.

Producing isn't just making beats on a beat machine. It's bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer, and telling them to all work in the key of C major... You bring these people together and let them all cook.

Success doesn't make you happy.

I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be, all-in-all, an incredible musician.

I truly believe that if I'm out partying and not in the studio, there's somebody out there who will be. When I'm asleep, somebody else is working. So, I have a lot of sleepless nights.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

As much time and effort, emotion, anger, love, joy that you put into another human being, you're not guaranteed to receive that back. And that's OK. That's alright.

I'm not just going to get a deal; I'm going to get the deal. And in my deal I got by signing with No I.D. to Def Jam, I got full creative control, the money was great, the contract was good, and I got to create the album that I wanted.

I just do what makes me happy.

Drake doesn't realize, in many ways, he was like the big brother I never had. He set the example and paved the way for me to be myself. Now, whether I'm at the Grammys or whether I'm here or there or whatever, he'll show me love... People don't realize what that's like, what that means.

I realized that everybody is a critic. They're going to say they hate you, they love you, they this, they that, but at the end of the day, no matter what, I have to be confident in myself as a man and an artist.

From tours to mixing, mastering, graphics, artwork - I've done out of pocket.

Anybody who loves what they do, they're constantly doing it all the time. So I'm constantly working.

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

I'm proud to be biracial, and there's a lot of people that say things like, 'I don't see color,' and I completely understand that, but I think different is beautiful, but I think our difference shouldn't separate us, and for me in this era, in this time, in everything that we're going through, my whole thing is just about unity, man.

Everyone's going to like something that's different.

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.

Tell that boy Drake he don't want it with me in 'Fortnite.'

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.

I've been blessed enough to have my eyes open because of music, first and foremost.

It wasn't the best childhood, but I did my best to make it good on my end... I didn't let it pull me down.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

Be not scared to use your voice.

Fans tend to think that if you fall in love with an artist... and then he gets bigger, and he grows, and he starts to make a different sound, 'He's changing on us.' But with me, I created all types of sounds from the get go, so you can never say I'm changing; you can never say I'm going mainstream or I'm selling out.

I was so scared because I was thought I had to work, work, work, because I thought I might only be around for five years. I thought I wasn't good enough to last.

I don't party. I don't drink. I don't smoke.

On the song 'Buried Alive,' it's almost like the instrumental is a therapist.

When I was, like, 18, that's when I started to really take my own craft seriously and just noticed people were enjoying it. And when I put out my first mixtape, that's when I realized I could make this a career.

Obviously, deep down, I want people to enjoy my music, but the only people I want to enjoy my music are the people who want Logic to win and are fans of me.

There are certain artists that get into the little circle in hip-hop, and everybody is talking about them, and they are buzzing. But they can't go out and sell out tours, perform in front of 3,000 people a night, and things like that. We did things backwards; with Visionary, we got all the fans first.

I think artists are interested in what people think of them.

The biggest part of why I am where I am today is not only because people can relate to me and my story but because I hit the road and actually saw them face to face and shook their hands.

Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines.

I wake up every day, make awesome music with awesome people, and tour the world, which is incredible.

I would like to think that I'm a gentleman and a nice guy.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

My mother was crazy.

My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time.

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

I was really scared to make this album and to make this song. Because I didn't want to talk about it. For me, it's even deeper than just '1-800.' 'Everybody' as a whole... I was terrified.

I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'

When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe - but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally.

You can't put my talents in a box because my talents have put me in a mansion, and I'll be damned if anybody in the world can tell me what I can or cannot do, because they're scared to do it themselves.

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

I want to be known for what I am, black and white, because I'm proud of both.

I have seven brothers and sisters, and I'm the only one who looks white because my mother has had children by all black men, and then my father has children with other women as well.

If you come to a Logic show, you get all creeds, colors, religions, and sexual orientations.

On the second half of 'Under Pressure,' I talk about my family, and there are voicemails on my phone from when I was on the road that actually make up the second half of the nine-minute song. I transcribe them and rap them as if I were my sister, my brother, or my father.

I've been working a lot with No I.D. and Hit-Boy.