Hops Quotes · Page 10

Coming up, you [got new] sneakers and you had to run outside to make sure everyone saw. It was on display. That's…

— Pusha T

I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave…

— Jim Jarmusch

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

— Karrine Steffans

I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

People also knew me for putting people up to hip-hop, so people knew I was heavy into hip-hop. But as for cyphers…

— Ryan Montgomery

I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I…

— Nile Rodgers

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys…

— Sxip Shirey

That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was…

— A-Trak

I grew up in the suburbs, and I listened to hip-hop for the right reasons, which was to understand a culture that…

— Jensen Karp

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

— Yelawolf

I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.

— Rakim

I'm a rapper but I don't f**k with that hip-hop s**t. You understand? I'm home, I take care of my family. I…

— Sean Price

What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting…

— AraabMuzik

So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the…

— Mark Ronson

Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again.

— Rakim

People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind…

— Stewart D. Friedman

I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley…

— Tommy Lee

As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me,…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living…

— Rob Sheffield

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just…

— Kim Deal

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.

— Stephen Boss

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

— Mayer Hawthorne

Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids -…

— Michael Rapaport

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,

— Donald Byrd

I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda