Top 1200 Rap Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

I don't consider myself to be bigger than nobody else in this game, so I'm not here to tell people what to rap about.

I am not a rapper. And I believe people in India are not even clear with the whole idea of rap or what it signifies.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.

What I decided was I'd be happier not being in the confines of a corporate infrastructure producing music. That's when I was free, and it opened up the door to have a different personality and incarnations. That's really when I had success in my music life. I was able to license my music.

I'm not sure I ever try to make a case for the music. I mean, sometimes the music isn't even that good. I just tell the band's stories; if I describe the music, it's to explain how it moved the overall story along.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.

In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

Christian music, gospel music, sometimes you'll fall asleep at church but music wakes you up, the song can speak to you in a way that's puts a fire in you. So if I'm working with a mainstream artist I'm trying to find a bigger purpose.

I think Broadway is waking up to the idea that rap is an incredible tool for telling a musical story.

I'm a fan of music, some rock music. But I like many types of music. But I suppose a kind of longstanding love of specific bands would be Radiohead, Wilco, Neil Young, Tom Waits, REM.

The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.

I grew up with bubble-gum rap. Seriously, in 2003, 2004, it was Chingy 'Right Thurr.'

I really just blend like rock, R&B and rap together to create a sub-genre, but it's very versatile.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.

I believe in reflecting honesty and reflecting reality in my music and making music that touches people emotionally - music that can bring us together.

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

I think my genre is more 'reality rap'; I talk about my life and the struggles that I've been through.

Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire, Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah

I love rock music, dance music, so it depends on my mood. But I mainly listen to dance music before going out on court.

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule. Music goes differently to your emotions. With music you can create different spaces and feelings easier than you can with the visual - maybe not easier, but in a way, it's more seductive.

The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what they give it. It's a host of different things, but it's something that I needed to say musically.

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

The more the country starts listening to music instead of consuming it in the format of music video, the more the independent music will flourish.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.

I can rippity rap, lyrical miracle all day, but if you don't have a message behind it and you not saying nothing, it doesn't make sense.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

Being in the music business requires having a very strong resolve. You must be completely committed to the craziness that will inevitably ensue when pursing a career in music. There is no one who is immune to this. Not even the biggest music icons.

A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.

My contract with Rap-A-Lot was never-ending and had me working for everything against royalties.

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more versatile than people realise it to be. It's a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it.

If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

I'm not a good dancer but Rap Monster is really terrible at it. The two of us are ultimate dance rivals.

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed it more than sex.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

In my opinion, it seems like music is taking a bit of a turn. Look at Mumford and Sons, and the Lumineers. It seems like people and music fans are enjoying the more artistic side of music, and that popular music is taking a turn and accepting that, so I appreciate that.