Missy Elliot Quotes

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• I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it

  Missy Elliot

  Flip, Reverse

  Song: Work It, Album: Under Construction

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• Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

  Missy Elliot

  Taken, Feet, Males

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• Music should be your escape.

  Missy Elliot

  Music, Musical, Music Love

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• If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

  Missy Elliot

  Funny, Music, Able

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• Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

  Missy Elliot

  Hip Hop, Creative, Hips

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• I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

  Missy Elliot

  Giving, Want, What You Want

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• Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta
  Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa
  Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?

  Missy Elliot

  Boys, Drunk, Hip Hop

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• Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

  Missy Elliot

  Beautiful, Nice, Trying

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

  Missy Elliot

  Kids, Hip Hop, Unity

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• I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

  Missy Elliot

  Mean, Rhyming, Rhyme

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• I wasn't born a superstar.

  Missy Elliot

  Superstar, Born

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• I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

  Missy Elliot

  Mean, Streets, Persons

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• Everybody is doing the same old thing.

  Missy Elliot

  Old Things, Same Old Thing

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• When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, First Love, Survivor

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• The rapping is cool, but my lines aren't all that fly. People like Biggie Smalls or Jay-Z who say stuff that you have to rewind and listen to twice and be like, "Wow, what made them say that?" or "I would have never thought about saying that" - those are rappers I really look up to. As far as flows, I can give you flows all day.

  Missy Elliot

  Rap, People, Giving

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

  Missy Elliot

  Genius, Want

  "Missy in action". Interview with Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

  Missy Elliot

  Artist, Order, Labels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

  Missy Elliot

  Hot, Want, Copies

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• I want to be cutting-edge.

  Missy Elliot

  Cutting, Want, Cutting Edge

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• I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, Phones, Talking

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

  Missy Elliot

  Ready

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• When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

  Missy Elliot

  People, Want, Size

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• I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.

  Missy Elliot

  Beach, Zoos, Lying

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• MC is a funny girl and always makes me laugh no matter what. I love her!

  Missy Elliot

  Girl, Laughing, Matter

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