Eminem Quotes

I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat ~ Eminem

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now. ~ Eminem

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our
checks in the mail. ~ Eminem

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. ~ Eminem

I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony. ~ Eminem

I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius. ~ Robert Pattinson

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. ~ Eminem

I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me ... ~ Eminem

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything. ~ Big Sean

Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless. ~ Eminem

In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up. ~ Eminem

People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously. ~ Talib Kweli

Well, it's great that critics are comparing
me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice. ~ Uncle Kracker

Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it. ~ Eminem

That's why we sing for these kids who don't have a thing, except for a dream and a fuckin rap magazine; Who post pin-up pictures on they walls all day long, idolize they favorite rappers and know all they songs; Or for anyone who's ever been through shit in they lives, so they sit and they cry, at night, wishin they'd die; Til they throw on a rap record and they sit and they vibe; We're nothin to you, but we're the fuckin shit in they eyes; That's why we seize the moment; Try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it, cause we consider these minutes golden; And maybe they'll admit it when we're gone; Just let our spirits live on, through our lyrics that you hear in our songs... [Sing for the Moment] ~ Eminem

God sent me to piss the world off! ~ Eminem

I will probably have sex with Eminem after the show is over. Probably, I dont see why I wouldnt. Im fair game, its not like Im that picky, youve seen the guys Ive dated. I like Swizz Beatz, just because I would like to yell out in bed, Swizz Beatz! Keep it coming! ~ Chelsea Handler

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing ... It's tough. ~ Eminem

My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me. ~ Eminem

Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear? ~ Eminem

What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He's stirring things up. He's provoking a discussion. He's making people's blood boil. He's reflecting what's going on in society right now. That is what art is supposed to do. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood daily to jump and chase me. It only made me what I am today. ~ Eminem

Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything. ~ Eminem

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album. ~ Eminem

I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can ... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ... whichever song really gets me going that night ~ Michael Phelps

When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.. ~ Eminem

Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal ~ Nicki Minaj

Why be a king,when you can be a god? ~ Eminem

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition. ~ Eminem

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position. ~ Eminem

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now! ~ Eminem

All I see is sissies in magazines smiling ...
Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent?
Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'?
And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken? ~ Eminem

When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am. ~ Eminem

The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem. ~ Curtis Jackson

I love listening to old school stuff. I listen to some new cats out here, but I'm really into, like, Tech N9ne and his clique; I really like Eminem and those guys - cats that got real flow: I really connect with that. But I do love rock. I love a lot of electronica because I love programming synthesizers. ~ Sir Mix-a-Lot

Money is what makes a man act funny. ~ Eminem

Love is evil spell it backwards I'll show ya. ~ Eminem

Inside I'll always be an outsider ~ Eminem

Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty. ~ Willie Nelson

They can trigger me, bu they'll never figure me out ~ Eminem

You won't hear a character's friend say this in a romantic comedy. Taylor Swift won't sing this, Eminem won't rap it, and Suzanne Collins won't write it, but it's true: just because you're "in love" with someone doesn't mean you should seriously consider marrying them. ~ Gary L. Thomas

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid? ~ Eminem

My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills. ~ Eminem

Your generation - you've not heard the Verve or Jimi Hendrix or Eminem, you've not read The Catcher in the Rye, you've not seen a classic film like Terminator or Blade Runner. All you've done is read dross, listen to crap and watch Disney movies with happy endings. And what kind of generation have we produced? A slow, simple, dull one who never questions anything. A stunted generation. It's devolution because in order for society to progress, you need to be able to debate ideas, to question, to see the dark and the light in things ~ Sam Mills

From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That's very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome. ~ Elton John

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them. ~ Eminem

Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel. ~ Eminem

Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up. ~ Eminem

I am a huge Eminem fan and find it flattering that he would rap about me. Personally, I'm honored. ~ Kim Kardashian

I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be, that's just me. ~ Eminem

I will hit a man with glasses. ~ Eminem

Sixty slutz all of them dying from asphyxia/after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippie cup ~ Eminem

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'. ~ Eminem

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it. ~ Eminem

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds. ~ Eminem

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill. ~ Kat Dahlia

I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker. ~ Jillian Keenan

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know. ~ Eminem

So many lives I touch, so much anger. ~ Eminem

My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~ Eminem

But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane. ~ Eminem

If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business. ~ Eminem

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all. ~ Michael Rapaport

If I'm garbage, you're a bunch of maggots. ~ Eminem

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that. ~ Selena Gomez

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down. ~ Eminem

Me and Marcus Allen went over to see Nicole
We heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron Gold'
Jumped behind the door, put the orgy on hold
Killed em both and smeared blood on the white Bronco ~ Eminem

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business. ~ Eminem

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. ~ Eminem

I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think. ~ Eminem

Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not. ~ Eminem

Skippy's dead, Blowjob! He's dead, and you can't bring him back! Not you, not every bent scientist in every laboratory in the world!' Breathing heavily, Dennis pauses, then turns his dreadful gaze on the others. 'You bummers need to get it through your heads that this is real. None of the stupid bullshit we do to distract ourselves is going to help any more. Spiderman isn't going to help. Eminem isn't going to help. Some fucking gay lame tinfoil time machine isn't going to help. All that stuff is over, don't you see? He's dead! He's dead, and he's going to stay dead for ever! ~ Paul Murray

Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem. ~ Big Sean

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time. ~ Eminem

Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible. ~ Talib Kweli

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy. ~ Eminem

And I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am? ~ Eminem

People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it" should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's a phenomenon. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it. ~ Elton John

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like. ~ Eminem

I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible. ~ Phoebe Tonkin

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are. ~ Eminem

And to the rest of the world
God gave you shoes to fit you
So put 'em on and wear 'em
Be yourself man, be proud of who you are
Even if it sounds corny
Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful ~ Eminem

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed. ~ Bill O'Reilly

You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally. ~ Eminem

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil ~ Eminem

Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for me listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda, it was incredible. So it just goes to show that if you put your teaching style in a certain form, that will attract the attention of the people you are trying to teach. ~ Ryan Montgomery

They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound. ~ Eminem

I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too. ~ Stephen King

What if Eminem was black? would he have sold five mil.
Or would he be 1 out of 5 million rappers with no deal? ~ Fredro Starr

I act like shit don't phase me inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive ~ Eminem

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me. ~ Eminem

Music is reflection of self. ~ Eminem

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found. ~ Eminem

I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius. ~ Hayley Williams

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune. ~ T-Pain

Listening to Eminem makes me feel like a badass. Or at least as though I have the potential for badassery. I mean, the way he sings, it's like he'd probably punch out a puppy if it looked at him wrong. Obviously I'm not glorifying animal cruelty here, I'm just saying, I could use some of that attitude. ~ Hannah Harrington

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. ~ Eminem

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man. ~ Curtis Jackson

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music' ... I make fight music, for high school kids. ~ Eminem

Had a dream, I was King,
I woke up, still King ~ Eminem