If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide… — 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
I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given… — 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
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 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
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
