Hops Quotes · Page 33

Some people can’t figure out what I’m doing. It’s not a walk-hop, it’s not a trot, it’s running, or as close as…

— Terry Fox

According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!

— Felipe Esparza

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

— Questlove

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

— LeCrae

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of…

— Afrika Bambaataa

MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing…

— Thomas Pynchon

I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so…

— Russell Simmons

A lot of times when people listen to music it's because they feel down, and that's when serious hip-hop comes into play.…

— Rakim

As an artist when you come into [hip hop] you don't know nothing really. You just know what you do and it's…

— Mic Geronimo

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,…

— KRS-One

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy…

— Katy Perry

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than…

— Henry Rollins

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

— Jonathan Franzen

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

— Curtis Jackson

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just…

— Erika Slezak

I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather…

— Chuck D

The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29" bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did…

— Matt Skiba

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of…

— Pharoahe Monch

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie…

— John Legend

I want to be the bridge. I embrace it. I don't mind being a leader. I don't mind opening the doors. I…

— LeCrae

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

— Josh Peck

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before…

— Steve Harvey

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

— Baz Luhrmann

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

— Mason Cooley