Macklemore Quotes

Calling each other faggots behind the keys of a message board ...

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

One man's trash that's another man's come up.

God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

Broken, hopeless, headed nowhere
Only motivation for what the dealer's supplying
That rush, that drug, that dope
Those pills, that crumb, that roach
Thinkin' I would never do that, not that drug
and growing up nobody ever does
Until your stuck, lookin' in the mirror like I can't believe what I've become
Swore I was goin' to be someone
And growing up everyone always does
We sell our dreams and our potential
To escape through that buzz

Bullying is a national epidemic.

My hope is that my personal testimony can help in some way to not only
advance the dialogue and approve Referendum 74, but also to help shape a
culture of belonging in which ALL people are equal.

For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

I'm as honest as I can be.

Live tonight, cuz you can't take it with ya.

The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.

Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process.

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

what up? I got a big cock

I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

Don't forget where you come from
Don't die holding on to your words
Cause you know you got a whole world to change
But understand who you got to change first

Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids

Strip away the fear, underneath it's all the same love

The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.

My relationship with God is as strong as the time and energy I put into connecting with God.

I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

America the brave
Still fears what we don't know

I wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I was the most rich in terms of my life, and my livelihood, and my art and my creativity, was when I was sober.

When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky
I know your fed up but you must try to survive
Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by
Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.

Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.

When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless,
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen,
I might not be the same, but that's not important.
No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it.

I buy whatever I see, but I tend to not spend money just to spend it.

The right wing conservatives think it's a decision that you can be cured with some treatment and religion.//Manmade rewiring of a predisposition//Oh no here we go, America the brave still fears what we don't know//But we paraphrase a book written 3500 years ago, I don't know ...

I'm a very conceptual writer.

I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.

The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled
Was convincing women that they looked
Better in their makeup

It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

The moment is now and we cant get it back from the grave.

Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

And weed's not a drug - that's denial

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.