At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change – that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.
IGGY AZALEAI started rapping since, like, 14. But I’ve been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard ‘Baby Don’t Cry,’ I’ll never forget.
More Iggy Azalea Quotes
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I’m irrational about all things creative and I’m always late!
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that’s what art is.
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I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you’re from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.
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Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.
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I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it – who’s white and won it many times – and they didn’t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.
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T.I.’s my mentor; he’s a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He’s helped me with my career.
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Being talked about like a package – I feel like that all the time.
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Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.
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I’d known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It’s a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I think that music is still art, even if it’s commercialised.
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A lot of people heard ‘Murda Business’ and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it’s kind of silly and playful.
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Music is art to me, and you don’t censor art. You don’t go into a museum and censor things.
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There’s a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.
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