Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Vince Staples - Page 2

All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.

I hate when I lose my voice and then people try and talk to me and I seem like I'm being rude and then I hurt their feelings. That sucks.

If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.

Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.

Every song with lyrics is lyrical.

Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

I've heard a lot of crack stories. I heard a RZA crack story, up close and personal, over a platter of 100 chicken wings that only him and his friend ate. It was a good day.

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we'll be fine.

Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.

I remember, once, my sister used to tell me that they found me in the trash-can when I was younger, so one time I pushed my sister into a trash-can - I put it over her head and pushed her down the street. And then after that, we been close ever since.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.

I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

I was never like, "Oh man, I want a Grammy and I'll do whatever it takes". Someone like that might not do what it takes to have a decent touring career, because they're in the studio trying to master whatever they're doing to win a Grammy.

Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."

Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.

Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.

When kids can't come to my show, I feel bad, because grown-up 21 and up people really probably don't need my help as much as an 11-year-old child.

If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.

When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.

I've had a lot of people online say they're going to kill me at my shows. A lot of people say they're going to punch me in the face - never happened. It's just people being sad because their life sucks.

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.

I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.

I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats.

When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.

I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.

Everybody deserves a right to be happy.

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that.

Things don't really go that well when people get back together.

I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.

The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.

Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a festival, people come to see music in general - so don't be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them.

That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.

I would for sure do a thousand dollar meet and greet because literally every single person knows where I live.

I don't really have a focus, I just make music.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.