Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Lil Jon - Page 2

In the 80s, I remember the radio stations would play everything from rock to rap.

Well, you've got to learn how to make fun of yourself - you know what I mean?

I have a couple different businesses.

Ladies like to kiss.

Yeah, I'm walking through the airport, I'm walking through the street, I'm driving in my car, people just start screaming at me - 'YEEEAAAHHH!'

I hate reality shows. It's funny because me and my wife be arguing all the time about reality shows 'cause she loves reality shows and watches them all day, all the time. And I be like, 'C'mon. No. No.'

If the beat feels like it don't make you move right, I scrap that and go to another track. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes, sometimes it takes an hour to get one done.

It's always shocking to people, because sometimes when I go on the road and I DJ, they think I'm just gonna perform, so to see me really DJing and playing their favorite song and really rockin', it's a shock to people, and definitely to DJs.

I think people underestimate because I'm the rap guy, I'm a crazy guy, screaming all the time. But that doesn't mean that I'm not intelligent.

My full name is Jonathan.

A crunk attitude you're just rowdy, rahhhhh! You're just crunk. But you add the crunk rock to it, and it gives you some edge.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

I used to do this one club called New York Sound Factory where I played house, hip-hop, and dancehall. I was one of the first DJs in the South to play everything.

When you put the guitars over the 808, it just makes it grittier and grimier. It's just different.

I focus all the way on the club. That's why my music sounds the way it does, with the 808, heavy kicks. Every aspect of it is about the club, so I don't really care about the person who's listening on an iPod.

I always try to give all of my fans something special for them.

Sometimes I don't want to have to be the guy that gets the party going.

Even though 'Turn Down For What' is considered an EDM song, it's really a rap song.

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

In high school I was the guy all the girls came to with their problems.

My music is party music. If you can make people party, you can always have an audience for that.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. That's kind of what happened with me and the Eastside Boyz. They wanted to do different things than I wanted to do, so we separated.

My music is designed to make a club go insane when it goes on.

I Twitter quite a bit, and try to send out some funny stories.

Everybody I see, that's the first thing they think of when they see me: 'WHUUUUUT?' or 'YEEEAAAHHH!' But they don't realize that everybody and their grandmother says that to me.

I used to DJ in Atlanta, and that's how I kind of got into the music industry.

Every city I record in gives me certain energy.

When I'm doing a set as an artist I'm right in front of the stage the entire time, interacting with the crowd. The DJ set's a little different but they both are great and high energy for the crowd.

I've been an Internet person since early on, been a social media person since early on.

I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.

Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, 'I'm a crunk artist. I make crunk music.'

I'm the type, when I used to go to the record store I used to buy two or three copies of certain records so I've got a pretty large selection of a lot of 12 inches.

A lot of stuff that I'm involved in is about branding.

You know, my era of DJing was the 90s. I think that was one of the best eras of music, period. From dancehall to hip hop to rock to pop to R&B to everything. I just like that era of music, so I just listen to a lot of 90s overall but definitely 90s hip hop.

Something that's Crunk is off the hook. It's popping, it's going down if it's Crunk. A football player listening to his Walkman as he's getting ready for the game, jumping up and down, he's Crunk.

I like producing myself, I like other people producing, I just like it all.

I'm not no 'drink wine every day' kind of dude.

When I worked with Jermaine Dupri for his label, he would have So So Def parties and he'd tell me, 'Yo, go on get this thing started.' I had to go get on the mic and get people turnt up. I mean, I don't want to be that turnt up guy all the time. It's part of my job so I do what I gotta do.

Sometimes I just got off of an international flight and people are like running up, screaming and hollering, and want to take pictures. They don't really understand like, 'Dude, I'm tired. Just say hello. Keep it moving.'

I speak to everybody. I'm one of those kind of artists that I'm cool with everybody. If they [fans] want to meet me, it's cool. That's as far as it goes. But I'm the cool artist. I shake everybody's hand, try to sign all the autographs, take pictures when I can.

I have no ill feelings for nobody, I wish everybody the best, and I'm cool with everybody.

We're all black when the lights go out.

Bend over to the front touch toes Back dat ass up and down and get low (get low)

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions.

I like to go to the clubs. As long as the environment permits, and it's not too knuckleheadish, I'm there, I go to the club. Because that's where you get inspiration from.