Earl Sweatshirt Quotes

• Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Communication, Bridges, Numbers

  "The Proverbial Wisdom of Earl Sweatshirt". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2015.

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• The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

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  Fighting, Two, Action

  "Mike Tyson Interview". Citizens Of Peace Magazine Interview, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.

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• I don't know why it's difficult to admit that I miss you.

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  Missing, Difficult, Knows

  Song: Sunday, Album: Doris, 2013

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• I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

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  Expectations, Forever, Awkward

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Shout out to the fathers that didn't raise us

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Father, Shout Out, Raises

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• Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins
  Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Rap, Feelings, Trying

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• The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Mean, Different, Mouths

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

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  Sheep, Media, People

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• I'm the bestest/on a bad day I spit asbestos.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Bad Day, Asbestos, Spit

  Song: Molliwopped

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• Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Song, Thinking, Names

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• All rappers are princesses like me.

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  Princess, Rapper, Like Me

  "What I've Learned: Earl Sweatshirt, on Being a Teenage Rap Prodigy Back From Exile" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. August 19, 2013.

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• When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.

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  Home, Trying, Figures

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Rap, Serious, Only Time

  "What I've Learned: Earl Sweatshirt, on Being a Teenage Rap Prodigy Back From Exile" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relateds for it. So it's been a lot of random jazz s - - lately. Like I found Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ahmad Jamal, s - - like that. So that's been very tight.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Song, Surfing, Jazz

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Real, Color, Addiction

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• It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

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  Rap, Thinking, Ideas

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• You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.

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  Song, Forever, Made

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Rap, Careers, Ego

  "Earl Sweatshirt Interviews Mike Tyson, Discusses Odd Future, The Notebook, Fighting, More". Interview with Mike Tyson, pitchfork.com. December 17, 2014.

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• I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.

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  Competition, Trying, Groups

  "Mike Tyson Interview". Citizens Of Peace Magazine Interview, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.

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• It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

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  Would Be, Records, Want

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• At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess.

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  Voice, Trying, Sound

  Interview with Kieran Yates, www.dazeddigital.com. October 25, 2013.

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• In a world where like everyone's so accessible now, to say something new in an article that you can't find out about a n--- through his Twitter or like Googling him or some s--- is rare. Just like how a good song is rare.

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  Song, World, Something New

  "Earl Sweatshirt On RZA Day, His Purpose And Paul McCartney". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

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  Song, Video, Sometimes

  "Earl Sweatshirt On RZA Day, His Purpose And Paul McCartney". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.

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  Rap, Legends, Sometimes

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Interview with Kieran Yates, www.dazeddigital.com. October 25, 2013.

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