Tyler, the Creator on convention
Tyler, the Creator34 quotes“Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.”
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My lyrics aren’t offensive. Some people find everything offensive.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I’m so stoked my life panned out how it was.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I like my raps, but I’m never too happy with some of ’em because I feel like they could be better.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don’t want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I think I’m cool. That’s all that matters.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator For the record, I don’t worship the devil. I just hate religion.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I never had a drink in my life. I don’t smoke or anything.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator Somebody called me a homophobe. I’m not homophobic.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I don’t like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I’m an optimistic guy. I’m one of those big dreamers. I’m one of those kids with that annoying imagination.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I’m like a big 10-year-old when I’m on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I wasn’t shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator I don’t really listen to rap; I just like to rap.
Tyler, the CreatorTyler, the Creator Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids, I didn’t have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that’s what I gravitated to.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
Ada LeversonAda Leverson The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
Ezra PoundEzra Pound I think it’s ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.
Kristen StewartKristen Stewart A guy walks into a psychologist’s convention with a banana in his pocket.When asked about the significance of this he says;well,they were all out of grapes.
Bob NewhartBob Newhart How crazy it is to define your happiness with hypocrisy-laced conventions? To always go with the flow and not letting the craziness show. Looks like the only sanity is to LET GO.
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