I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
NASI want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
More Nas Quotes
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn’t feel right to me – ever.
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.
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When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls.
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The sound of the ’90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street – it’s a feeling.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.
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No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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