Rap Song Quotes

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that. ~ Darius Rucker

While 'Rap Trax!' recorded, Neel found some scrap paper and we started writing our first lyrics. Bandying about subject matter and title, we got stuck on the idea of 'cool', so my first rap song became 'Pretty Cool'. It was a symbol of our confidence. We weren't awesome cool or mega cool. We were only ... pretty cool. ~ Nikesh Shukla

All I'm saying, as a fan, is I'm tired of the same song for 30 years. Can't we change the message a little? You've arrived. You have a black president. Every white guy in a commercial doesn't have to be the idiot and every black guy in a rap song doesn't have to be God's gift to the world. ~ Bill Maher

Why incentivize laziness? High-school students shouldn't be discouraged from grappling, sometimes unsuccessfully, with challenging books, pictures, and songs. A really, really good work of art doesn't bow down to you; you step up to it, and it rewards you. In the end, kids faced with what Chaucer actually wrote may still dislike him, and I'm fine with that; they will have earned that opinion rather than had it handed to them. For heaven's sake, it's easy for kids to see themselves and their peers in a rap song. When they can start to see themselves in a 14th-century poem, then they're actually learning something. ~ Jeff Sypeck

I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady. ~ Drake

Am I the only one who measures time using songs? Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that's not to long! ~ Kendrick Lamar

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? ~ Kanye West

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time. ~ Bob Seger

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap. ~ SonReal

I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich. ~ John Waters

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth ~ Drake

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy. ~ Cheryl James

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age ~ Drake

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying. ~ Shy Glizzy

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. ~ KRS-One

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink. ~ Tupac Shakur

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer. ~ Drew Carey

Everybody got a deal, I did it without one ~ Drake

She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ass like a nominee. ~ Drake

Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future. ~ Nikki Sanderson

Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys. ~ Roy Peter Clark

I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up ~ Drake

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice. ~ Drake

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller. ~ Bruce Dickinson

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers. ~ Tom Lehrer

You were put here to protect us.
But who protects us from you? ~ KRS-One

She live in a mindset that I could never move to ~ Drake

I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end. ~ Drake

But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam ~ Drake

I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads. ~ Drake

I make YouTube viral videos all the time, and I made a video called 'Beauty and the Beat,' And as a strange, wacky coincidence, Justin Bieber dropped the song 'Beauty and a Beat.' ~ Todrick Hall

Maybe it's not to much to hope that the Disney Company might one day get over its self-imposed fears and finally find its own Laughing Place.
-Floyd Norman
Disney Legend
June 2012 ~ Jim Korkis

Samurai Song"

When I had no roof I made
Audacity my roof. When I had
No supper my eyes dined.

When I had no eyes I listened.
When I had no ears I thought.
When I had no thought I waited.

When I had no father I made
Care my father. When I had
No mother I embraced order.

When I had no friend I made
Quiet my friend. When I had no
Enemy I opposed my body.

When I had no temple I made
My voice my temple. I have
No priest, my tongue is my choir.

When I have no means fortune
Is my means. When I have
Nothing, death will be my fortune.

Need is my tactic, detachment
Is my strategy. When I had
No lover I courted my sleep. ~ Robert Pinsky

My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there. ~ Nas

Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best. ~ Garrison Keillor

A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
who's hungry and where their mouth is or
who's out of work and where the job is or
who's broke and where the money is or
who's carrying a gun and where the peace is. ~ Woody Guthrie

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

I can't stand rap ... people who can't sing do rap ... you can sing rebellion as well as talk it ... Hitler would have been in a rap band. ~ John Entwistle

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol. ~ Taylor Swift

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. ~ Pope John Paul II

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness. ~ Nick Cave

You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly melodic and straightforward sounded sort of cheesy to me. Pop songs seemed too manufactured. ~ Dylan Baldi

The answers were maddeningly absent - it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back. ~ Jennifer Egan

Every Song
Every song
is the remains
of love.
Every light
the remains
of time.
A knot
of time.
And every sigh
the remains
of a cry. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality. ~ Adam Lambert

Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long. ~ Rose Fyleman

What will a child learn sooner than a song? ~ Alexander Pope

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it. ~ Noah Baumbach

I'm a song writer, professional dreamer... ~ Don Williams

No two persons could be so different from one another in their make up or temperaments. Tagore, the aristocratic artist, turned democrat with proletarian sympathies, represented essentially the cultural tradition of India, the tradition of accepting life in the fullness thereof and going through it with song and dance. Gandhi, more a man of the people, almost the embodiment of the Indian peasant, represented the other ancient tradition of India, that of renunciation and asceticism. And yet Tagore was primarily the man of thought, Gandhi of concentrated and ceaseless activity. Both, in their different ways had a world outlook, and both were at the same time wholly Indian. They seemed to present different but harmonious aspects of India and to complement one another. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Be a great writer when you write your life's song. ~ Debasish Mridha

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life. ~ Samantha Harvey

Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me. ~ Lil' Wayne

Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song. ~ Naomi Novik

The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry. ~ Mickey Newbury

In one conspicuous case, that of royalty, the State does already select the parents on purely political grounds; and in the peerage, though the heir to a dukedom is legally free to marry a dairymaid, yet the social pressure on him to confine his choice to politically and socially eligible mates is so overwhelming that he is really no more free to marry the dairymaid than George IV was to marry Mrs Fitzherbert; and such a marriage could only occur as a result of extraordinary strength of character on the part of the dairymaid acting upon extraordinary weakness on the part of the duke. Let those who think the whole conception of intelligent breeding absurd and scandalous ask themselves why George IV was not allowed to choose his own wife whilst any tinker could marry whom he pleased? Simply because it did not matter a rap politically whom the tinker married, whereas it mattered very much whom the king married. The way in which all considerations of the king's personal rights, of claims of the heart, of the sanctity of the marriage oath, and of romantic morality crumpled up before this political need shews how negligible all these apparently irresistible prejudices are when they come into conflict with the demand for quality in our rulers. We learn the same lesson from the case of the soldier, whose marriage, when it is permitted at all, is despotically controlled with a view solely to military efficiency.
Well, nowadays it is not the king that rules, but the tinker. Dynast ~ George Bernard Shaw

Dream Song 55
Peter's not friendly. He gives me sideways looks.
The architecture is far from reassuring.
I feel uneasy.
A pity, - the interview began so well:
I mentioned fiendish things, he waved them away
and sloshed out a martini
strangely needed. We spoke of indifferent matters
God's health, the vague hell of the Congo,
John's energy,
anti-matter matter. I felt fine.
Then a change came backward. A chill fell.
Talk slackened,
died, and began to give me sideways looks.
'Chirst,' I thought 'what now?' and would have askt for another
but didn't dare.
I feel my application failing. It's growing dark,
some other sound is overcoming. His last words are:
'We betrayed me. ~ John Berryman

If you are thinking about buying a particular make of new car, you suddenly see people driving that car all over the roads. If you just ended a longtime relationship, every song you hear seems to be written about love. If you are having a baby, you start to see babies everywhere. Confirmation bias is seeing the world through a filter. ~ David McRaney

I get physical, mystical, very artistical ...
Giving party people something funky to listen to. ~ Big Daddy Kane

I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice ~ Brendan Kennelly

I don´t think I love very many things
but here are the ones I can think of:

I love the first sip
of coffee in the morning

I love reading someone else´s words
and finding a connection in them

I love the feeling a good song invokes

I love wondering

I love driving at night
with no destination

I love the gentle kind of sadness
like a reminder that I can feel. ~ Marianna Paige

Dee Dee Dee dosen't mean mentally retarded. It means stupid. This song goes out to all the stupid people out there. Your gonna find this song hilarious, and you don't even know it's about you. ~ Carlos Mencia

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. ~ Tom Waits

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation. ~ Andrea Bocelli

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. ~ Chuck D

I can't tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girl ... And this boy can think of nothing but holding that girl's hand in the darkness ... All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood. ~ Jennifer Flackett

The impulse to lie, to continue to wallow in secrets as he had for years, was only the faintest whisper now, a nagging sense of stepping too far on an uncharted path, easily overridden by need to tell her. If he couldn't tell her, at least he could find some comfort in confidence. ~ Anthony Ryan

I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that every track I did had to be a some progressive sample masterpiece. It was nice to blow off steam and work on those songs. For me, that's what 'The Outsider' was about in general: forget everything, I'm just gonna follow my own music, and make the music I want to make. ~ DJ Shadow

I don't much like opera, either. Especially Wagner. There's something about Wagner that's just too piss-German, too fucking Bavarian for a Prussian like me. I like my music to be every bit as vulgar as I am myself. I like a bit of innuendo and stocking-top when a woman's singing a song. ~ Philip Kerr

I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you come rain or come shine. ~ Johnny Mercer

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. ~ Al-Ghazali