The Notorious B.I.G. Quotes

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

You gotta mature, you know.

Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato

It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.

I mean even though we were going through our drama
I would never wish death on nobody, you know what I'm sayin'
Because there ain't no coming back from that

If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.

The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.

Climb the ladder to success escalator style

Rappers can't sleep, need sleepin',
B.I.G. keep creepin',
Bullets heat-seekin',
Casualties need treatin',
Dumb rappers need teachin'.

Won't cha ... picture life as my wife, just think:
Full length mink, fat X and O links,
Bracelets to match, conversation was all that,
Showed you the safe combinations and all that.
Guess you could say you's the one I trusted ...
Who would ever think that you would spread like mustard?

Damn right I like the life I live,
Cause I went from negative to positive.

This rule is so underrated:
Keep your family and business completely separated.

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.

With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'

Never get high on your own supply.

Never let them know your next move.

You and your friends ... always together,
No time for the B-I-G, so I'm O-U-T.
The sex was great, but the headaches I can't take.
I think I made a very big mistake.

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.

Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us
No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us
Birthdays was the worst days
Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay.

Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns,
As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.

I'm living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.

Get my daughter this college grant so she don't need no man

As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.

Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'.

My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10.
My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'.

Never let no one know how much dough you hold.

I mean everything's a lot more smoother. It's just calm. IN the beginning, I had the typical attitude of a young rapper makin money ... ya know I was the partyin guy ... I was the guy wit the girls ... all the extra that came wit the game ... it's up to the artist to know when to say when. You can't live that kind of lifestyle forever ... I learn from the other people's mistake. I know when to say no. You learn to make the right decisions and pick the right choices. That's all that's really changed.

Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.

Play the charts like the Beatles.

We be tight like frogs ass.

There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing
If my burglar alarm starts ringing

I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.

Lyrically I'm supposed to represent,
I'm not only the client, I'm the player president

Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us
Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious
Thug ass niggaz that love to bust, it's strange to us
Y'all niggaz be scramblin, gamblin
Up in restaraunts with mandolins, and violins
We just sittin here tryin to win, tryin not to sin
High off weed and lots of gin
So much smoke need oxygen, steadily countin them Benjamins

If you don't love yourself, I'll make you see your own heart.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

Birfdays was the worst days,
Now we sip champagne when we thirstay uh

Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.

Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless.

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.