Hips Quotes · Page 35

We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture.…

— Jason Whitlock

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial -…

— Etta James

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

— Nancy Sinatra

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

— Damon Albarn

I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with…

— Tinie Tempah

I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a…

— Angelina Jolie

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying…

— A-Trak

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground…

— Boots Riley

I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks…

— Axel Alonso

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always…

— Joaquin Phoenix

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background,…

— Kid Rock

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

— Doug E. Fresh

I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his…

— Markus Zusak

When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of…

— Margaret Atwood

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole…

— Liz Phair

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort…

— Dan Auerbach

If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good…

— Talib Kweli

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really…

— David Foster Wallace

I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.

— Jim Gaffigan

I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came…

— M.I.A

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When…

— David Byrne

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

— KRS-One

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with…

— Talib Kweli

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

— Pitbull