Hips Quotes - Page 36

• My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'

  Nicki Minaj

  Artist, People, Goal

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• As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

  Moby

  New York, Rocks, Blue

  "Q&A: Moby interview". www.cnn.com. November 10, 2006.

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• Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.

  Nas

  New York, Hip Hop, Bigger

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Spotlight, Noise

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  Nas

  Hands, Numbers, Hip Hop

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Way, Enough

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  Nas

  Couple, Voice, Hip Hop

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

  Nas

  Warrior, Thinking, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

  Gary Oldman

  Dad, School, Kids

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• I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

  Danica Patrick

  Husband, Yoga, Home

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• I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

  Katy Perry

  Hippie, Book, Kids

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• I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere.

  Steve Perry

  Hurt, Spring, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

  Liz Phair

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Kids, Thinking, Our Generation

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• I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Who I Am, Shooting, Term

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

  Pink

  Badass, Dad, Bad Ass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

  Pink

  Children, Rocks, Band

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• I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!

  Brad Pitt

  Wise, Kids, Thinking

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• At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

  Prince

  Mtv, Outdated, One Time

  "Inside Prince's bizarre life at Paisley Park: This is what happened when we visited the music icon". Interview with Peter Willis, www.mirror.co.uk. July 2010.

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• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  Questlove

  Art, Hip Hop, Form

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• I shoot from the hip.

  Gordon Ramsay

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• I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

  Lou Reed

  Beautiful, Hip Hop, Important

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• Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

  Busta Rhymes

  Hip Hop, Trying, Negative

  "Rhymes and reason". Interview with Douglas Century, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2002.

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• People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.

  Little Richard

  Kids, Rocks, People

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• Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

  Nicole Richie

  Country, Hip Hop, Jazz

  "Nicole Richie Grows Up". "Interview Magazine" Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2010.

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