Art Quote by Black Thought Download Open image “I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was - I survived Def Jam.” — Black Thought ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Jam Survived Used
To me, Def Jam put my career on hold. I was used to making 13-14 songs a year, and they trickled that down to… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
Def Jam was always trying to get me to put out an album because I had 'Toot It and Boot It.' — YG Copy Share Image
Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.' — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
I did Def Jam in '94 and 2006. There will never be anything like Def Jam, like it was. — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
When I appeared in EPMD's 'Hardcore' song and video that was just crazy. Def Jam had these little virals back then on VHS tape. Q-Tip was another very important person to my career. He had me in A Tribe Called Quest's 'Scenario' video when I was first coming out. — Redman Copy Share
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I've been with Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I'm forever grateful. — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
I've never signed to Def Jam. I've been to their offices and whatnot, met everyone there. I've just never signed. — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
Def Jam just made deals with me. They wouldn't let me go because they didn't really have that much street cred. So they kept… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Lots of people are saying that I shut down mumble rap in one 10-minute setting. But that wasn't my intention, because mumble rap -… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just kind of… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Anyone that I've ever worked with, it's not like I just meet you or someone throws us together for the sole purpose of coming… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day the diversity has served as a major... that's what has determined the difference between The Roots… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders the day I finally finished both verses for 'My Shot.' — Black Thought Copy Share Image
I remember when I was 15 or 16 years old, I couldn't imagine what life would be like past the age of 30, just… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
