Top 267 Quotes & Sayings by Nas - Page 3

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth Rich men died and tried, but none of it worked They just rob your grave, Id rather be alive and paid Before my numbers called, historys made Somell fall, but I rise, thug or die Makin choices, that determine my future under the sky To rob steal or kill, Im wondering why Its a dirty game, is any man worthy of fame? Much to success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.

I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.

Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.

But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up

The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.

I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time.

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death.

I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be

I promise you, if you have a plan, you can accomplish everything you ever wanted

Every great person educates themselves.

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity Just hope the big man show me some courtesy.

My weapon of choice is my voice.

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.

Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.

I've been lucky enough to reach a place where I can speak what's in my heart, and people know that it comes from a real place; I don't have to worry about doing what someone's not doing - I can do me.

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.

You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.

Business, endorsements and things of that nature, I got into it kinda naturally. Those ventures materialised as a direct result of things that I was actually doing; all the partnerships have been organic and not necessarily etched out plans for monetary gain.

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.

I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart.

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

Whose world is this? The world is yours.

Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

I'm sure we're gonna meet some bumps in the road, but if it's meant to be it will happen.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready.

Read more learn more, change the globe

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

Just do as much as you can.

God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts

I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me.

There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded. When I named the album originally, I thought I bit off more than I could chew but you'd be an idiot to think I'm talking about how the South killed hip-hop or how New York isn't where it should be or where it once was. It was like, "Damn, I need to explain this?" But I thought, "Nah, the proof is right there. We should know what it is." I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost.

I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.

Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with.

I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about.

...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul, Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style. Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes, Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.

Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts

Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about.

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane

With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."