Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Tech N9ne
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Tech N9ne.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.
My love for music is infinite.
Snow Tha Product was dope. She wanted me on a song, so I did it for her. I ain't charge her nothing.
I'm independent. I use my own money. For everything.
You want to have a good job so you can make good money. You want to make good money so you can buy nice things. You want to have nice things so you can impress a nice woman.
I originally got my name after a gun because the way I rap; a gangster gave me the name in 1988.
My backpack is signed by three members of The Doors. I did a song with Robby Kreiger, John Desmore, and Ray Manzarek. I made my dream come true.
My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both sides and then other sides because I wanted to find out which way to go. So not only Christianity and Islam, but Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Judaism. I tried to read everything.
I'm the complete technique of rhyme. I don't have no boundaries.
People on YouTube say they don't think people should mix genres. Those are the same people who don't think they should mix races. It's gonna always be that, but you can only pray that music can bring everybody together as one.
When I have 7,000 people plus at Red Rock just for a show of mine, I think it's wonderful to get that many people to come see you.
When MC Hammer came out, I was wearing parachute pants and patent leather shoes and a high top fade with a blonde streak in it like Kwame.
When you think you have something special, you can't be the only one what thinks it; everybody else has to agree.
I found The Doors, and thank God I found The Doors because it inspired me to do Strange Music, and it saved my life.
I've been around so long that I've seen rappers make it and plummet.
When I was signed to Quincy Jones before I went independent, he told me to rap what you know, and people will forever feel you. And I stuck to that, no matter how many people called me a devil worshiper, no matter how many people call me a cult leader. I stuck with rapping about what I know.
I take pride in lyrics. I take pride in music and staying on beat and being on key.
The master race, for real, is money. Money can buy you anything.
If I didn't have to do press, I would not.
My quest has always been to get my story to the rest o' the people.
We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows. I'm sure they have fights at Miley Cyrus shows.
Yes, I want to work with Rick Rubin. Yes, I want to work with Trent Reznor. Yes, I want to work with Madlib. Yes, I want to get with all these wonderful people. Collie Buddz, Marsha Ambrosius. I just want to go, man. I'm gonna keep on making music.
When dubstep came out, I loved it.
I feel fuzzy inside when I see good people make it.
Some people like the dark music I do. The dark music is my life; it isn't make believe.
Whenever you can take something positive and make something good out of it, that's what I'm all about.
What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.
I always sacrifice myself for the love of all my people.
A lot of people got a lot of money around Kansas City, Missouri. If we didn't, KC Trends would be out of business.
I want everybody to know my name because I feel like I give so much of my heart and my soul in my music.
I don't really put cars in my videos because I'm always flying or on a tour bus.
OutKast. For them to come back together to rap with me and my brother Krizz Kaliko would be ginormous.
My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.
I know how to do music, no matter how weird I look on stage with the face paint, mask, and hospital scrubs.
Me and Twenty One Pilots would be wonderful.
It's difficult to stay relevant for many years, but I've somehow managed to do so. I'm honest and provocative.
I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.
The reason why people still come to Tech N9ne shows is because they never know what to expect. They know it's gonna be something wild. From generation to generation, I've seen it. The parents are bringing the kids, and then the kids start comin' themselves. It's crazy, man.
Got so much to say, such little time.
I was always against starting the show with new material because the fans don't know it. They just look at you, and it's not explosive.
I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.
I don't really want to do movies, but I tried. I don't feel like acting is my thing; I think music is my strong area.
I was not an athlete, but I was a break-dancer. I was a beatboxer, an entertainer.
Since I can remember, being different was always hard around normal people. That's just how it is, whether you have vitiligo, a deformity, or a different way of thinking or dressing. It's going to always be weird for normal people.
People need each other to help each other up. But we can't stand near each other because we fear each other. When you get over fear, nothing matters anymore but love.
I wanted to be a psychiatrist.
As I got older, I started realizing that though people differ in skin tone, religious beliefs, cultures, and food, one thing we all have in common is emotions, so I tapped into emotions.
You have to distance yourself from hate, period.
I would love to have Mystikal on Strange Music when he gets outta jail.
I'm looking for 100 percent proof that there's a spiritual realm, and I ain't seen nothing in my 43 years of living but humans. So until that day, I'll be waiting.
When you're in your own world, you don't know what's outside your world, so you can do whatever you want.
I've been around since 1985. When the Jordan shoe came out.
When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.
I feel like breaking barriers is necessary because man created barriers, which keep us separated as human beings.
I write from my heart, so everything I say, I say with force.
The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his 'Make America Great Again' cap. I would ask him, 'When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?'
I've always been strange; I've always been slightly to the left, like 'weirdo' to other people, I guess.
I'm the Wi-Fi, so I get everybody connected. I'm trying to let the whole world know that I can keep it connected if you get with me, you know what I'm saying?
I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.
I feel like I'm Dracula, dude, like, um... Nosferatu, you know.
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