Aesop Rock Quotes

I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

It's a beautiful thing, to my people who keep an impressive wingspan, even when the cubicle shrink.

For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least.

Sleep and sleep well; sleep with a sacred array of fevers,
Wake as a pertinent version of a pipe dreamer.

Smash cut to a smoke-bombed quarantine,
Guards like 'all signs correlate with sorcery',
It's more a dormant cell of valor as awoken by the smell of sordid power and defecting shortly after,
Fist bump dry land, brackish, cat nap 15, back to swiss-cheese the flagship,
Uh, blue in the menacing grip of a day for which you're manifestly unfit.

Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

There is admittedly an incredible mystique to meddling in the reason a city won't sleep.

Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.

I remember science class
if chemistry could silence the lions laugh I'd be fine

I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

The older I get, the less I care about what's cool. I realize I'm old and weird.

The bear cage is empty?

You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.

I have been completely unable to maintain any semblance of relationship on any level I have been a bastard to the people who have actively attempted to deliver me from peril I have been acutely undeserving of the ear that listen up and lip that kissed me on the temple I have been accustomed to a stubborn disposition that admits it wish it's history disassembled I have been a hypocrite in sermonizing tolerance while skimming for a ministry to pretzel I have been unfairly resentful of those I wish that acted different when the bidding was essential I have been a terrible communicator prone to isolation over sympathy for devils I have been my own worse enemy since the very genesis of rebels

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn't sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow ...

Dream a little dream, Or you can live a little dream I'd rather live it 'Cause dreamers always chase But never get it

Heartless harvest of mine, I'm tired of pissin benediction.
Maybe it ain't healthy, but sometimes I'd rather burn then let you help me.

I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide
Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine

I've never had a dream in my life,
Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued.
I knew what I wanted, and did it till it was done.
So I've been the dream I wanted to be since Day One.

Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin
But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.