Sir Mix-a-Lot

When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I like kitchens. I'm a kitchen and bathroom freak.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I still love 'Baby Got Back.' I will perform it until I drop.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' I did it to be unpopular.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Cuz the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I like big butts and I cannot lie

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Do I do bar mitzvahs? No. You know, you've gotta draw a line somewhere.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I tell people all the time, I'm Mix-A-Lot. I'm not a rocket scientist.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Baby Got Back' was already a reflection of what was going on. I didn't see it as this gigantic political statement.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I grew up listening to a lot of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Devo, all that stuff.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I thought the grunge scene was cool. This is going to sound weird, but I remember doing a concert at a tavern…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I build a lot of stuff, but I'm not a 'construction guy.' But I'm one of these guys that sits with his…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Inventors often don't know how to pitch their ideas. So many people in Silicon Valley want to hear you say 'disruptive,' and…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Bottom line: Black men like curves. When they're crooning to women about how beautiful they are in an R&B song, the ladies…

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I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

After 'Return Of The Bumpasaurus' in '96, I just got away from music for, like, a year. Literally, I think I produced…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I love Stuart Scott. There are a lot of people that tore down barriers that we don't really acknowledge sometimes. He was…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I love listening to old school stuff. I listen to some new cats out here, but I'm really into, like, Tech N9ne…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I think what's beautiful when you're looking at artists like Macklemore and you're looking at artists like Ayron Jones, they're proud of…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Look at Macklemore! Perfect comparison, we're two artists from the same city who both had meteoric rises at different periods. I probably…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on…

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I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' that was just a reflection of the African-American community. We've always liked curves, and a lot…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

That was the coolest thing about 'Baby Got Back.' The establishment didn't embrace the song, which is what kept me from being…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

The only thing that doesn't drop in a down market is entertainment money.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

The 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb, We're rollin' Rainier, and the jealous wanna get some. Every time we do…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Most of my money is more brand association deals. I own my publishing so that's allowed me to leverage my brand in…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

A lot of people have said 'people should see you work in the studio,' because a lot of people don't realize I'm…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

When I came out with 'Posse on Broadway,' I decided, enough with trying to imitate New York, enough with trying to imitate…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I'll tell you who doesn't get enough credit, Soulja Boy. He was the first one to do something, post it, yank it…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I tried gimmicky stuff 'cause I wanted to get some attention, and remember, you know, in the rap world Seattle was a…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot