Staples Quotes
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
— Vince Staples
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
— Vince Staples
Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.
— Auguste Escoffier
A lot of music comes from a selfish place ...
— Vince Staples
I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.
— Mavis Staples
I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.
— Mavis Staples
Black has always been a staple for me, but that's not really a good favorite color. I've been really into browns lately.
— Dave Douglas
I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
— Mavis Staples
I hate when I lose my voice and then people try and talk to me and I seem like I'm being rude and then I hurt their feelings. That sucks.
— Vince Staples
never use a halogen light bulb, as it could start a fire.
— Jonny Staples
My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.
— Mavis Staples
One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.
— Mavis Staples
I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there.
— Mavis Staples
Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.
— Mavis Staples
I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
— Mavis Staples
There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.
— Mavis Staples
There are songs that I have to play!
— Mavis Staples
If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game. — Belva Rae Staples
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game. — Belva Rae Staples
I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
— Mavis Staples
Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.
— Vince Staples
I used to work for the Clippers - I sold tickets - so I was in the Staples Center all the time. I'm a big Clippers fan.
— Charles Michael Davis
It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life.
— Mavis Staples
I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.
— Mavis Staples
Please read this [book] so I'll have someone to talk about it with? I'll get you cigarettes.
— Fiona Staples
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
— William Shakespeare
David Nelson says that one of the staples of his diet during this era was ketchup sandwiches
— Blair Jackson
I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.
— Vince Staples
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
— Mavis Staples
Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."
— Vince Staples
I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.
— Mavis Staples
Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
— Vince Staples
Got staples on my dick. Why? Fucking centerfolds.
— Kanye West
Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
— Vince Staples
If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?
— Mavis Staples
I would for sure do a thousand dollar meet and greet because literally every single person knows where I live.
— Vince Staples
If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.
— Mavis Staples
You're either ghetto or you're not.
— Vince Staples
The police are very mean people sometimes.
— Vince Staples
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
— Ruth Ozeki
The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all ... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.
— Graham Hill
I live to die; better that than to live a lie.
— Vince Staples
I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.
— Mavis Staples
I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.
— Mavis Staples
If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.
— Vince Staples
School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.
— Vince Staples
The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
— Vince Staples
I have fun just about everywhere I go.
— Mavis Staples
There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.
— Mavis Staples
School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.
— Vince Staples
Care and pity are two different things.
— Vince Staples
Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.
— Mavis Staples
Those with all the answers have not asked enough questions.
— Belva Rae Staples
Sprite really does taste different everywhere! That's like a fact. Because of certain regulations, you can only put so many sugars ...
— Vince Staples
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
— Vince Staples
Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.
— Brent Staples
The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.
— Vince Staples
What's important to me is people just being people.
— Vince Staples
Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
— Graham Chapman
The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.
— Mavis Staples
The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
— Vince Staples
Humor and Health,
The staples of wealth. — S Austin
The staples of wealth. — S Austin
I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.
— Mavis Staples
My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
— Vince Staples
I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.
— Mavis Staples
If something doesn't start out right, it won't end up right.
— J.J. Staples
I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.
— Vince Staples
Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.
— Vince Staples
I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.
— Vince Staples
Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
— Vince Staples
I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
— Mavis Staples
I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.
— Vince Staples
If you hit a kangaroo in the street and you have to pull out on the side of the road, it can get back up and murder you.
— Vince Staples
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players.
— Brittany Howard