Joe Budden Quotes

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

And I'll never let myself down..How so? I don't expect too much from me.

If I were to go the major route, again, attention would probably be the first and foremost. You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me. As far as money, acclaim and fame, those things are a plus - accolades - they're all great.

Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.

Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one

I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.

I could've never envisioned things goin' this way in a million years. But, I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions. I'm sure that everything [has] happened for a reason.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

I'm lookin' forward to doin' a lot of big things. I've been doin' a lot of big things: a lot of traveling, a lot of recording - I'm excited.

Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.

I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.

Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right

God I hear you giving me an earfull but I'm gonna cruise in 5th gear until I'm near you.

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.

Maybe I'm regular and the world needs to adjust?

I think, it's so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something.

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.

Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse,
Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse.

I chose the name "Padded Room," because, when I'm in the booth, it would be the padded room. When I'm in the booth, I can say a lot of things and speak about a lot of things that normally I wouldn't be able to speak about to a friend or to family or to a crowd. A lot of times, the things that I say, if you had to categorize it, they would probably call me nuts or crazy. So, you add that aspect of "The Padded Room," which would be almost like an insane asylum.

Joe Budden TV is life through the eyes of Joe Budden. You've gotta go check it out - it's pretty fun.

Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.

I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

I was fortunate enough to have gone through the major label process and kind of have the inside scoop on some things, some information I wouldn't have normally had. To go from a major to an independent, I don't think it's an easy transition.

I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today ... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.

I believe that life is meaningless without hope, which is really what that line is about. Without hope, what are we living for? I wouldn't wanna see where exactly I'd be in five years. I wouldn't wanna know my exact date of death. I wouldn't want to know my exact cause of death. Certain things I just want to allow to take place rather than just have the knowledge beforehand.

Like I said, as long as I'm consistent and I try to put my best foot forward, and work as hard as I possibly can, everything else will fall into place - God'll take care of everything.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift
i guess thats why its the present

Certain majors [lables] just know what they're doin', and got a good grip on the dynamic of what's happening, and some don't.

You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.

In my world, even sure bets are not certain;
'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit.

I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in the group, 'cause everybody has rewrote their sh*t except for me.

Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.

A few more albums, a few more years, I'll be like Peter Petrelli in Heroes. I'll be some type of rap super-monster or something.

For Joe Budden fans, and for Joe Budden, I like to focus on the creative side, and havin' a thought and bein' able to execute it in the booth. I think that song best displays me being able to do that.