Able Quote by Kendrick Lamar

“I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.”

Kendrick Lamar

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings)

More by Kendrick Lamar

I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the…

Kendrick Lamar

Image

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for…

Kendrick Lamar

Image

Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.

Kendrick Lamar

Image

Everybody has their own way of hearing songs. My fans are usually pretty on point. Sometimes they go all the way to the bottom…

Kendrick Lamar

Image

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Kendrick Lamar

Image

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They…

Kendrick Lamar

Image

Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to…

Kendrick Lamar

Image

You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind…

Kendrick Lamar

Image

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

Kendrick Lamar

Image

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

Kendrick Lamar

Image

I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Kendrick Lamar

Image

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

Kendrick Lamar

Image

Explore all 266 Kendrick Lamar quotes

More Able quotes

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

Jacques Lusseyran

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

Frederick Douglass

Image

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

Alice Englert

Image

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any…

Huey Lewis

Image

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still…

Nas

Image

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it…

Anthony Jeselnik

Image

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be…

Pee Wee Reese

Image

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

Anais Nin

Image

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

Greg Perry