When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put… — 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
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I was never a worker. And that's not even being arrogant. I was just never a worker. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I never wanted to just glamorize the playa lifestyle and not touch on the down side. I wanted everyone who's in a… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I don't have any fear of working with Samsung because I'm not gonna let them put a phone on my forehead; that's… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said,… — 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
