Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to… — 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
Around 20. I'd been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
People really feel like music is free but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap,… — 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
When Basquiat was hanging out with Madonna and Fab Five Freddy, and all those worlds were colliding, people have to realize hip-hop… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“The music is meant to be provocative—which doesn’t mean it’s necessarily obnoxious, but it is (mostly) confrontational, and more than that, it’s… — 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
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
With rap, you go in the studio, you make music, you put the music out, then all of a sudden, you're a… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lines that separate us,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are… — 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
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
In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
When I listen to Amy Winehouse, I believe that her heart and soul is in the music, or if I listen to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can't be an artist and… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“THEY NEVER TAUGHT MARCUS GARVEY IN OUR SCHOOL CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS THEIR GOLDEN RULE” — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
