Age Quote by Scott Adams

When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing in that…

— Gus Dapperton

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is…

— Barack Obama

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

— Roy Ayers

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

— David Bowie

My best writing is not outside of the beat. I'm 99 percent influenced by the beat first, and then the words just flow.

— Ari Lennox

Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood.

— Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

— will.i.am

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

Hip-hop music was our life.

— Prodigy

I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.

— Jay-Z

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

— Pitbull

I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote between takes.…

— Leon Russell