Hops Quotes - Page 4

• Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.

  Henry VIII of England

  Weed, Beer, Wicked

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• How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Yellow, White, Hip Hop

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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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• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  Isaac Hayes

  Art, Brother, School

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

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• I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Artist, Government, People

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• Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

  Billy Joel

  Beach, New York, Holiday

  "New York State of Mind" (song) (1976)

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• I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

  John F. Kerry

  Rap, Anger, Thinking

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• My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform.

  Avril Lavigne

  Dream, Night, Fans

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• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  Brittany Snow

  Birthday, Party, Parent

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• That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

  Alan Vega

  Rap, Hip Hop, Records

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• If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Beer, Oats, Prepared

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• The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

  Talib Kweli

  Beautiful, Song, Hip Hop

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• Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.

  Dave Moulton

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

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• My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

  Herbie Hancock

  Hip Hop, Movement, Eras

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• Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

  Steve Harvey

  Beautiful, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Soul

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• I'm a big hip hop fan.

  Jonah Hill

  Hip Hop, Fans, Hips

  "Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

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

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• More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

  Vanilla Ice

  Thinking, White, People

  Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

  LL Cool J

  Hip Hop, Limits, Hips

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

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• Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 6, 2005.

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• My son is a hip-hop producer.

  Quincy Jones

  Son, Hip Hop, Hips

  Los Angeles Times interview, articles.latimes.com. April 18, 1997.

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• Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

  Jay-Z

  Music, Thinking, Race

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• That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

  Jay-Z

  Fun, Party, Nightlife

  "Letter to the President" (Video), www.imdb.com. 2005.

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