Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion. "

Related Quotes:

" I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things. "

" I didn't aspire to be on Broadway. "

" As a kid, I was very shy. "

" Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off. "

" Broadway was weird. "

" Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don't really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it's not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it's going to make you feel amazing. "

" The tricky thing about fast raps is not really the delivery of them; it's the writing of them, with consonants close enough together that you don't trip up over them. "

" I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you. "

" I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?' "

" It's funny because as a rapper, there is - and this is something that Clipping challenges all the time - there is this idea about authenticity as a rapper, in the fact that you rap things that are yours. That's not what doing a play is. You're interpreting somebody else's words. "

" There's no reason for somebody who's good at writing rap to be good at freestyling. They're different parts of your brain. You can develop both skills. I'm a much better writer. "

" To walk into a casting room full of people who look like you is a crazy thing. What is the thing that necessitates all of us having the exact same shade of skin and having the same hair? What about this deodorant commercial needs that? "

" That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show. "

" Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth. "

" Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope. "

" I have a recognizable silhouette. "

" Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing. "

" I'm from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola. "

" Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels. "

" Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop. "

" I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic. "

" I love that 'Black-ish' is a pretty traditional sitcom, structurally. It functions like the sitcoms from the '80s and '90s that I grew up with. "

" I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life. "

" I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing. "

" If a project feels good to you, say yes. And do it with everything that you have and hope that the outcome is good. "

" To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain. "

" I call myself a nerd all the time. "

" Writing rap songs is about flow, about one word blending seamlessly into the next and creating a thing that is possible to perform in a way that feels natural. "

" All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't want me. There's nothing there for me.' I'd come to New York a lot and never even tried to see a Broadway show. There was no reason for me to do that. "

" I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did. "