Jay-Z Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jay-Z
Jay-Z Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jay-Z on Wise Famous Quotes.
The most amazing feeling I feel
Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
Maybe I paint the sky blue
My greatest creation was you.
Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
Maybe I paint the sky blue
My greatest creation was you.
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.
The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks
... So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.
... So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.
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.
Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.
I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.
When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.
No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here
Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive
I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive
I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive
I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.
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.
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die,
And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils ...
And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils ...
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.
I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out
Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out
Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out
Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.