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Jay-Z

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.
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Collaborator Everyone Foundation Good Make Music Other
I don’t have any fear of working with Samsung because I’m not gonna let them put a phone on my forehead; that’s just never gonna happen.
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Before Fear Forhead Gonna Happen Phone Put Samsung Work
My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was ‘coded’: it was called ‘Reasonable Doubt.’ So the things I was talking about…
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Album Call Code Deal Doubt First Issue Mainly Reasonable Stress Talk
I think that’s what happened to the record business when ‘Napster’ came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.
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Accept Business Change Happen Industry Instead Record Reject Think
Everyone knows I’m married; I just don’t discuss it. Because it’s a part of my life that I’d rather keep private… When your whole life is played out in front of everybody, for your sanity, you need parts that are just yours.
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Discuss Everyone Keep Know Life Married Part Private Rather
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
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Bore Good Grade Raed Really Six Student Twentieth
You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.
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Being Bright Brighter Fighter Freedom Glow Look People Someone Try
We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we’d pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.
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Juggled Live Manage Mother She Situation Tough
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice – anything just to get a paper bag. And I’d write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
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Anything Bag Come Grab Juice Paper Run Store
It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.
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Best Brand Celebrating Day Emotion Friend Getting One Weird
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it’s attainable. I didn’t do it any other way than through hip-hop.
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Attainable Bring Culture Go Hip Hop Through Understand
My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.
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Dad Good Huge Just Left Scare Superhero
I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.
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Cool exchange Mirror Reflect See Sometimes Start
I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
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Best Love Want When
We wasn’t allowed inside the galleries or inside Yankee Stadium. We were writing in the street and making music.
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Allow Gallery Inside Make Music Stadium Street Writing Yankee
I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about.
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Brighter Day Every Hungry Knowledge Learn Thing World

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