Hips Quotes - Page 18

• When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.

  ASAP Rocky

  Artist, Boys, Hands

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

  AraabMuzik

  Song, Hip Hop, World

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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• What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for me to put out [rap beats]. But it's not going to happen. I've graduated from that.

  AraabMuzik

  Crazy, Rap, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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• When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?

  Ike Turner

  Kings, Thinking, Guitar

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• I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I think that Louis Armstrong loosened the world, helped people to be able to say "Yeah," and to walk with a little dip in their hip. Before Louis Armstrong, the world was definitely square, just like Christopher Columbus thought.

  Hugh Masekela

  Thinking, Squares, People

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• People get God and religion confused. I think God is a bit too hip to join any of his unauthorized fan clubs.

  John Fugelsang

  Confused, Thinking, People

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• Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more?

  Isaac Newton

  Eye, Men, Wings

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• How, voters will ask, can we cover 50 million new people without any new doctors or nurses? The answer is to ration health care, with the U.S. government deciding whom will get hip and knee replacements, heart bypass surgery and all manner of medical treatments. And what does rationing mean? It means that the elderly will be denied care, which they can now get whenever they want it.

  Dick Morris

  Heart, Mean, Doctors

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• I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I haven't been involved in so much is hip-hop, which I chose not to be involved in because it felt like I would be what they called "perpetrating." It felt like hip-hop was so much of its own culture and that I was not part of that culture.

  Nile Rodgers

  Hip Hop, Would Be, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Years, Hip Hop, Surfing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped.

  Simon de Pury

  Teenager, Hip Hop, Pockets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

  Simon de Pury

  Song, Hip Hop, Gone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there is going to be a whole market and we'll start to see hip-hop jewelry regularly in jewelry auctions around the world. Therefore, anybody who gets on the train early can only do well financially in the long run.

  Simon de Pury

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream.

  Simon de Pury

  Dream, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

  Simon de Pury

  Kids, Hip Hop, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music.

  Simon de Pury

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.

  Simon de Pury

  Hip Hop, Lasts, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would love to take off the stilettos and put the boots back on. Strap something to my hip, and let's go!

  Gina Torres

  Boots, Stilettos

  Source: collider.com

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• I didn't really get that good at cutting because I didn't have those three years of gestating and nurturing my skills in the bedroom. I was kind of, like, out and playing in clubs after three of four months, because I was pushy with promoters. But I would just listen to the radio - Stretch Armstrong and Red Alert - and then I would go hang out with Mayhem, who did the WNYU hip-hop show.

  Mark Ronson

  Cutting, Years, Skills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

  M.I.A.

  Weed, Hip Hop, Hops

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

  M.I.A.

  Running, Creativity, Hip Hop

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way my mom dressed was one of my earliest inspirations, in those '80s suits with shoulder pads and things like that. For years, I ran away from that style. But now, all I want to do is shoulder pads and nipped-in waists and padded hips and peplums and poufed dresses.

  Jason Wu

  Mom, Inspiration, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

  Boy George

  Dressing Up, Dancing, Hip Hop

  "Taboo". Interview With Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• A lot of Donna Summer and things that maybe weren't trendy anymore or weren't hip in gay clubs but you'd hear them at Taboo.

  Boy George

  Summer, Gay, Clubs

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.

  Afrojack

  Song, Thinking, People

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