I'm just going to make the music I love to make, and I'm going to mature with my music. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Black Axl Rose, move halfs and wholes. Come down to the jungle, just ask for Hov. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Music is the soundtrack to your life. It's not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
'Blueprint 3' is made up of songs, but it's also a commentary on the idea that in order for rap to survive,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things - whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's when it starts getting criminal.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“Some people have used this song as evidence that I worship the devil, which is another chapter for the big book of… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you get involved… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way… — Jay-Z Copy Share
Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in… — Jay-Z Copy Share
New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know… — Jay-Z Copy Share
It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around… — Jay-Z Copy Share
“THEY NEVER TAUGHT MARCUS GARVEY IN OUR SCHOOL CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS THEIR GOLDEN RULE” — Jay-Z Copy Share
Tears on the mauseoleum floor. Blood stains the coliseum doors. Lies on the lips of a priest. Thanksgiving disguised as a feast. — Jay-Z Copy Share
Around 20. I'd been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six… — Jay-Z Copy Share
There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can… — Jay-Z Copy Share
All black everything, Ni**a you know my fresh code. Im out here fightin for you, dont increase my stress load. — Jay-Z Copy Share
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop.… — Jay-Z Copy Share
Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I… — Jay-Z Copy Share
