Danny Brown Quotes

• If you like soggy cereal, then we not friends.

  Danny Brown

  Cereal, Not Friends, Ifs

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• Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they're going to go find better. I've always been that type of person.

  Danny Brown

  People, Want, Type

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• I use the Internet for what it's for: to learn.

  Danny Brown

  Use, Internet

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• I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

  Danny Brown

  Rap, Kids, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

  Danny Brown

  Rap, Artist, Broke

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• I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me.

  Danny Brown

  Littles, Mixtapes, Scared

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never was a crazy liquor drinker, and I don't like beer that much - though I keep the brews at home because my homies love beer.

  Danny Brown

  Crazy, Home, Beer

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'll be getting all types of crazy fans, from the hoodest dude to the straight-up dude in a business suit. It's dope. I have a crazy wide-range fan base.

  Danny Brown

  Crazy, Dope, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't care about sex anymore. It's a headache. It's hard to trust people. You talk to a girl, and then she screenshots a text message.

  Danny Brown

  Girl, Sex, People

  "Danny Brown: Top Underdog" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. September 23, 2013.

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• I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

  Danny Brown

  Work Out, Vision, Dollars

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life.

  Danny Brown

  People, Guy, Too Much

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.

  Danny Brown

  Real, Long, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

  Danny Brown

  Labels, Want, Reason

  "Danny Brown Town". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.

  Danny Brown

  Morning, Kids, Rapper

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• Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill!

  Danny Brown

  Differences, Soda, Detroit

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• Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

  Danny Brown

  Influence, Yeah, Rascals

  "Danny Brown Town". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2012.

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• I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

  Danny Brown

  School, Artist, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I would never design anything. I just think that's kind of wack. I hated every rapper fashion line that ever came out, you know what I'm saying? I would never try.

  Danny Brown

  Fashion, Thinking, Rapper

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.

  Danny Brown

  Jobs, People, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

  Danny Brown

  Cities, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

  Danny Brown

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• I like seeing people that are into my music, it shows me that it doesn't matter, you can't judge a person based on how they look, and that's just how my music is.

  Danny Brown

  People, Judging, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.

  Danny Brown

  Years, America, Five

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

  Danny Brown

  Thinking, Michigan, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

  Danny Brown

  Song, Two, Lasts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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