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40 David Cook Quotes On Careers & Music

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David Cook is an American rock singer and songwriter. He is most famously known for being the winner of the 7th season of the widely celebrated singing TV competition show ‘American Idol’.

After winning the show, Cook released his self-titled debut album which notably has gone Platinum certified by the ‘Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)’, sold over a million copies in the U.S. alone, and netted two hit songs in the top 20 on the prestigious ‘Billboard Hot 100’ charts.

Cook started out his career as a musician with his high school band, releasing 3 studio albums and 4 live albums before making his first solo independent album ‘Analog Heart’. Throughout his music career, Cook has amassed many awards, including the ‘Teen Choice Awards’ and ‘Nashville Music Awards’.

We’ve put together this collection of the best David Cook quotes:

 

40 David Cook Quotes On Careers & Music

1. “Digital Vein had something in it, sonically, that felt like a path that I had plenty more to explore.” – David Cook

2. “I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy.” – David Cook

3. “Where the big changes were was that it muddied the finish line. I went through the writing and recording process without a real idea of what the end result was going to be. Will this get released in 2020? Next year? At all? What will touring look like on the other side of this, and how will we support this record?” – David Cook

4. “I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy.” – David Cook

5. “I think my experience with Idol reinforced my confidence in my ability.” – David Cook

6. “I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that’s their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.” – David Cook

7. “To have something of that caliber acknowledge me as a singer and performer was huge. And so, of course, that confidence carried through into songwriting.” – David Cook

8. “I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning ‘American Idol?!’ It’s pretty absurd.” – David Cook

9. “I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.” – David Cook

 

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10. “I’d imagine it has, although I’m relatively unaware of how. Honestly, it seems like a fruitless exercise to try to evaluate it.” – David Cook

 

11. “I learn things from each record, which I then try to utilize on the next one.” – David Cook

12. “I have to be involved. Whether it’s me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That’s part of why I got into music in the first place.” – David Cook

13. “And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.” – David Cook

14. “My first active participation in music, though, was in 2nd grade.” – David Cook

15. “I got to sit down and write some songs with him (Raine Maida), and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.” – David Cook

16. “I think at some point, I just stop working on them. And then, months or years after they’re released, I’ll hear something that I wish I could add or take away.” – David Cook

17. “There’s more life experience and observation the further down the line you get. And as those storylines and inspirations expand, the music sort of follows along with it.” – David Cook

18. “Any sort of realization that I could find a career in this really didn’t occur until Idol. Up till then, I had operated on the premise that I loved playing music, but the chances of it turning into a career were somewhat far-fetched. Life had a different plan, though.” – David Cook

19. “I’ve been riding that wave ever since. Not with arrogance or anything. Just knowing that I can bring something to the table, creatively.” – David Cook

 

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20. “Luckily, I wasn’t too far down the road when the pandemic began, so I was able to alter course without any real ramifications to the process.” – David Cook

 

21. “I think each record is its own thing. But “Chromance” and “The Looking Glass” do have a connection where I think there were things I discovered on “Chromance” that then inform “The Looking Glass.” Different sounds and dynamics that open you up to completely new musical landscapes.” – David Cook

22. “Digital Vein, as a title, was a tip of the cap to my first ever solo record, Analog Heart. Those two records felt intertwined in how their recording processes felt. Just pure joy and exploration and excitement.” – David Cook

23. “I think the main undercurrent of this record is about hope, leaning into whatever the good things were that existed during these last 15-16 months. I know that in my case, that was the only thing that kept me from being eaten alive by my anxiety and worry.” – David Cook

24. “No firm plans, but I enjoy making records, both full-length and EPs. There’s a creative fulfillment to making them that I’m not willing to give up, even if the industry seems shifted back towards singles.” – David Cook

25. “Sometimes I won’t write for a month, and then all of a sudden, It’s 3 songs in a week. I try to just remain open to it as it comes and not try to force it.” – David Cook

26. “There’s definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.” – David Cook

27. “I’m definitely an overall picture thinker.” – David Cook

28. “Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.” – David Cook

29. “I’m grateful I get to make music for a living and that’s more than enough.” – David Cook

 

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30. “As far as songwriting goes, I think with each record, you see the blinders open up a little more.” – David Cook

 

31. “I think the actual process stayed pretty similar. It was more of an issue of being aware enough to pack masks and hand sanitizer as well as guitar cables and microphones, you know?” – David Cook

32. “I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.” – David Cook

33. “My earliest encounter with music was really just growing up watching my Dad noodle on the guitar around the house. He had this beat-up, Frankenstein-Esque acoustic he’d play on while watching TV.” – David Cook

34. “I was worried, once the pandemic began, that it would be too difficult to find enough inspiration to write about. But leaning into that feeling yielded more fruit than I’d expected. And the recording process wasn’t too different.” – David Cook

35. “I’m not sure a song like “Strange World” exists the way it does if I don’t learn something from trying new things on a track like Warfare.” – David Cook

36. “On the contrary, I think Digital Vein opened me up to the idea that my definition of rock up to that point needed some expanding. So, I feel like what I’m doing now feels, in a way, more rock than anything I’ve done before.” – David Cook

37. “I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be.” – David Cook

38. “I’m admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast.” – David Cook

39. “I think the future is whatever I’m willing to make it.” – David Cook

40. “My Mom had busted me singing to myself while getting ready for school one day, and reached out to my music teacher to let her know that maybe I could sing. So my music teacher put me in the school Christmas play and gave me a solo.” – David Cook

 

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50 Powerful Mary J Blige Quotes That’ll Motivate You

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Mary J Blige Quotes

Which are your favorite Mary J Blige quotes?

Mary J Blige is an American singer, songwriter, and producer who is considered an icon in the music industry and pop culture.

In 2006, Blige won nine Billboard Music Awards in one night. She became the first person nominated for acting and songwriting as Icon of the Year by Billboard Women. She is known by Billboard as ‘the most successful female R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the past 25 years.

Here’s a collection of the most Powerful Mary J Blige quotes:

 

50 Powerful Mary J Blige Quotes That’ll Motivate You

1. “You’re taking drugs so you can go out and feel courageous, or go out and feel beautiful or whatever. You’re doing it to cover up something.” – Mary J Blige

2. “Life is full of trials and tribulations. It’s dramatic when you don’t treat people right when you’re in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say ‘No more’, and then you know what to do when the trials happen.” – Mary J Blige

3. “We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.” – Mary J Blige

4. “I’m from the element of the streets that says that once you’ve made it, it’s yours. But keep it to yourself.” – Mary J Blige

5. “Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.” – Mary J Blige

6. “I don’t have someone I listen to. I don’t. It’s just me. It’s a very alone place, but it is what it is. And it’s always been this.” – Mary J Blige

7. “I know who I am. I am not perfect. I’m not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I’m one of them.” – Mary J Blige

8. “I’ve seen visions of what I would look like if I kept doing drugs.” – Mary J Blige

9. “If you’re looking for inner peace from the outside world, you’re not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.” – Mary J Blige

 

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10. “I’m searching for a real love.” – Mary J Blige

 

11. “I’m very structured, my workout starts at 7:30 a.m.” – Mary J Blige

12. “Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us.” – Mary J Blige

13. “Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.” – Mary J Blige

14. “It took me a long time to tell my mom something that happened to me when I was smaller.” – Mary J Blige

15. “We numb ourselves with drugs and alcohol and people and shopping and shit, to cover up what’s really going on inside.” – Mary J Blige

16. “I’m on my way to a place where I’d never dreamed I’d be, and that’s perfection.” – Mary J Blige

17. “As public as I am, I’m real private…. I’ll give you the juice and the truth, but not the stuff that’s going to kill me…. I grew up in a neighborhood where we couldn’t tell everything. It would kill us. So you know,’ but you don’t [know]. You know?” – Mary J Blige

18. “It’s up to us to choose whether we win or lose…and I choose to win.” – Mary J Blige

19. “In your life, there’s peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don’t even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.” – Mary J Blige

 

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20. “I know what God says about me, he says I’m beautiful, he says I’m strong, he says I have to believe that…. I’m Mary, and that’s beautiful to me. I accept that. I accept all that comes with that.” – Mary J Blige

 

21. “It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don’t even understand what you’re reading in your contract.” – Mary J Blige

22. “I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.” – Mary J Blige

23. “It hurts when you have to smile and you don’t want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.” – Mary J Blige

24. “To me, I’m just Mary.” – Mary J Blige

25. “Just don’t let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y’know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don’t let it consume you; don’t let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.” – Mary J Blige

26. “Everybody thinks they know everything, but nobody really knows.” – Mary J Blige

27. “I’ve done well, I’ve been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course, the labels are going to be the labels. It’s the music business. You are a business. That’s what they do. So you’ve got to protect yourself.” – Mary J Blige

28. “When life is real, it’s not going to be smooth.” – Mary J Blige

29. “So much painful, embarrassing, public stuff has happened from the time I came out in this music industry to right now.” – Mary J Blige

 

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30. “I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.” – Mary J Blige

 

31. “I was courageous. I was a courageous woman…[and] I gave and gave and gave and gave and gave when people were afraid to give. I said the things that people were afraid to say.” – Mary J Blige

32. “You demand respect and you’ll get it. First of all, you give respect.” – Mary J Blige

33. “If I’m sick, once I’m on stage, I don’t feel it. If I’m in pain, I don’t feel it because it’s not about me anymore. It’s about the people.” – Mary J Blige

34. “In the inner city, there’s a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I’ve gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.” – Mary J Blige

35. “Believe in yourself when nobody else does.” – Mary J Blige

36. “The music my mother played in the house moved me – Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was.” – Mary J Blige

37. “My responsibility to God is to live. That’s the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.” – Mary J Blige

38. “I was 33 years old when I revealed to my mom how I was molested. Thirty-three. Because I didn’t want to hurt her. And I wish I didn’t do it then, but I had to.” – Mary J Blige

39. “As a child, I always wanted to be a singer.” – Mary J Blige

 

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40. “If you’re looking for inner peace from the outside world, you’re not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get – it’s all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside.” – Mary J Blige

 

41. “The important thing is to realize that no matter what people’s opinions may be, they’re only just that – people’s opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that.” – Mary J Blige

42. “I had to forgive myself for being so stupid, I had to forgive him for everything he did.” – Mary J Blige

43. “You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.” – Mary J Blige

44. “I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn’t love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I’ve seen squirrels, I’ve seen a bird, and I’ve seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I’ve learned to say: You know what? I am a beautiful black woman.” – Mary J Blige

45. “You know a lot, but you don’t know everything.” – Mary J Blige

46. “I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.” – Mary J Blige

47. “I cannot save the world; that’s not what I’m trying to do. I guess I’m just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J. Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it, too – that’s my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.” – Mary J Blige

48. “I got my family. I have my sister, my mom—that I can’t tell everything to, because they family, and you don’t want to get them all riled up. But I have God. That’s my Mary J. Blige. He showed me the truth in me, so I can be transparent.” – Mary J Blige

49. “Well, when I look back, I see that we all want what we want. And we want it to be the way we want it to be.” – Mary J Blige

50. “I love people, I love the world, I love my nieces, I love my nephews, I love my family, I love them so deeply. But right now it’s about me and little Mary. It’s like that’s my baby, my little girl. She needs my help…and I’m not going to ever let anybody hurt her again. She needs to live, she needs to play. She doesn’t mind her life being used to help someone else…. But I have to take care of her.” – Mary J Blige

 

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50 Strong & Inspirational Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

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Which are your favorite Lin-Manuel Miranda quotes?

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American actor, singer, songwriter, rapper, composer, director, producer, author, and playwright. He has received several awards including a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Miranda is best known for writing the script, music, and lyrics for Hamilton. He founded the hip-hop improv group Freestyle called ‘Love Supreme’. Other than music, he also has appeared in television shows like ‘Modern Family’, ‘Do No Harm’, and ‘How I Met Your Mother’.

Here’s a collection of the most inspirational Lin-Manuel Miranda quotes:

 

50 Strong & Inspirational Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

1. “Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He’s great at playing that ‘I’m the only one sane in the world’ character.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

2. “One of my first favorite books was ‘The 12 Days of Christmas,’ and I would just go up to people and say, ‘I can sing ‘The 12 Days of Christmas,’ and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I’d go all the way, each time. I’ve always hooked into lyrics.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

3. “You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

4. “Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

5. “Legacy. What is a Legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

6. “I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton’s life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar were albums before they were musicals.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

7. “You know what’s a great way of tricking people into thinking you’re a genius? Write a show about geniuses!” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

8. “What ‘Twilight Zone’ did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

9. “You cannot let all the world’s tragedies into your heart. You’ll drown. But the ones you do let in should count.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

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10. “I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

11. “History is entirely created by the person who tells the story.”– Lin-Manuel Miranda

12. “I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable. I am an original.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

13. “The Hulk before intermission, Bruce Banner after it.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

14. “I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on The Sopranos.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

15. “This is when IMDb was a little more lax with its proceedings, so it’s listed as one of my projects.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

16. “You go through the ‘I’m a Fraud’ phase. You go through the ‘I’ll Never Finish’ phase. And every once in a while you think, ‘What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such?” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

17. “This show is proof that history remembers.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

18. “I was 15 years old; it’s a terrible movie. I wrote 50 percent of it because I wanted to kiss this one girl, and I wrote a kissing scene for it.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

19. “I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued ‘Hamilton,’ but I couldn’t write a book, because there’s no applause at the end of writing a book.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

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20. “My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

21. “Rent was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you’re allowed to write.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

22. “She is a perfect symphony of one Our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they’re finished songs and start to play.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

23. “The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

24. “My wife’s the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

25. “Let them manifest action.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

26. “I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

27. “There’s been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it’s used as a joke – isn’t it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

28. “When I was asked to do a song from ‘In the Heights’ at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do ‘Alexander Hamilton’ because I felt like I was meeting a moment.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

29. “What I learned from my go-round with ‘In the Heights’ is that it’s tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

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30. “Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

31. “I just happen to think that with Hamilton’s story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

32. “Sometimes a line enters your head, and you’re so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

33. “The music you love when you’re a teenager is always going to be the most important to you, and I find that it’s all over the score of Hamilton.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

34. “Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

35. “The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that’s proven.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

36. “The only other thing that’s like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there’s a rhythmic quality to it.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

37. “Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the ’90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

38. “Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life… That’s a superpower I’ve been very conscious of developing.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

39. “I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

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40. “If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

41. “I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

42. “When my prayers to God were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

43. “If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

44. “When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised–not one day.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

45. “I couldn’t possibly write ‘Next to Normal,’ but God, I can weep and watch ‘Next to Normal’ five times.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

46. “I don’t differentiate between black and Latino actors. We’re in the same struggle to be represented in a way that’s even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, ‘That’s what my life experience looks like’ – I can’t think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in Mi Familia.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

47. “History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

48. “I can’t say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I’ve encountered racism there.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

49. “I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you’re going to have to work twice as hard.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

50. “We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers–remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa’s symphony.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

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50 Inspirational & Famous Pusha T Quotes

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The Best Pusha T Quotes

Which are your favorite Pusha T quotes?

Pusha T is an American rapper, songwriter, and record executive. He first gained major recognition as half of hip hop duo ‘Clipse’, alongside his brother and fellow rapper ‘No Malice’. He is the co-founder and co-chief executive officer of ‘Re-Up Records’.

He announced he was signing with Kanye West‘s ‘G.O.O.D.’ Music label in 2010. In March 2011 he released his first solo project, a mixtape titled ‘Fear of God’.

His official debut album ‘My Name Is My Name’ featuring guest appearances from Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, 2 Chainz, Big Sean, Future, Pharrell Williams, Chris Brown, and Kendrick Lamar, among others.

Here’s a collection of the most inspirational Pusha T quotes:

 

50 Inspirational & Famous Pusha T Quotes

1. “By now, you should know what you’re getting with Pusha T. I’ve been in this game since 2002, and my name says it all. You know I’m only moved by a certain style of rap. Not that many other styles move me. You have to really be a rapper’s rapper for me to like it.” – Pusha T

2. “I caught the U.S. Open a couple of times, but, man, I would love to catch Wimbledon and watch Nadal – he is the king of all kings.” – Pusha T

3. “I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took me to a place in regards to music that I love and music that I had made previously. We had a clear understanding of what I wanted to make, and he just seemed like he was an advocate for hardcore, uncompromising hip-hop.” – Pusha T

4. “I make a timeless music. I think I’ve made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.” – Pusha T

5. “I think Adidas really understands that it’s cool to be in business with the right people. It really feels like a bunch of creative minds rather than some rap guys stamping their names on a sneaker. We’re arguing overshoes, ideas, and everything – it’s like a tug of war.” – Pusha T

6. “I’ve never been – I don’t think I’m, like, a great A&R by any means. I don’t even know production lingo, in all honesty.” – Pusha T

 

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7. “My hip-hop fans are a little spoiled – they want a particular level of lyricism and energy that I’m known for. When they don’t get that, it takes a little time for them to open up to it. But electronic fans are as free as the music. On social media, they were so excited and loud; they’re in awe.” – Pusha T

 

8. “Oh, I’m up at 6:00 A.M. every morning because I have a lot to do. Plenty. I work out probably at, like, 8:00. I gotta eat at 6:00 so, therefore, I can workout at 8:00.” – Pusha T

9. “Some of the greatest hip-hop artists have incorporated elements from electronic shows into their setup. People are taking notice. It’s going to be a new wave.” – Pusha T

10. “When you make albums like I do, and it’s based off fanfare and based off touring – I make these albums, and I get on the road. It’s not really a radio-driven thing. I get on the road, and I see my fans, and I touch each and every last one of them.” – Pusha T

11. “Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.” – Pusha T

12. “I believe there’s a god above me, I’m just the god of everything else!” – Pusha T

13. “I feel like, as far as streetwear goes, man, Play Cloths sits at a top-tier of quality, and your idea of luxury should not stop where you feel like you’re at the obvious.” – Pusha T

14. “I just start my day really early. Everything happens in the morning time. Writing. Just everything. I can’t – I don’t know how to work late.” – Pusha T

15. “I think about nothing but business the whole time. Even when I go out to my after-parties, people are like, You’re drinking water?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah I am.” – Pusha T

16. “I’ve got my traveling, my packing, my after-show activities all down to a science. I used to not work out on tour; now I take a trainer with me. I do things to make sure that I can give the crowd my all, because that’s what I’m all about.” – Pusha T

 

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17. “My fans like a certain quality and a certain level of music. Once I give it to them, they seem pretty happy.” – Pusha T

 

18. “My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality music, high-quality art. G.O.O.D. Music is entrenched in the culture of hip-hop. It’s entrenched in the culture, period.” – Pusha T

19. “Playing a room, it’s a real dictator-type situation – you can really move the crowd the way you want to. In a festival, there’s a sea of people, and it’s harder to lock in on any one group.” – Pusha T

20. “When we were growing up, I got kicked out of Timbaland’s house every day. He was the DJ for my brother’s rap group in junior high school. So I was 7, and while Tim’s DJ’ing and my brother’s rapping, I’d be upstairs dancing.” – Pusha T

21. “As a writer, you’re always trying to say the best thing. You’re always thinking about what’s the best thing to say, and what’s the hardest way to say it, and what’s the best line? Sometimes the best line is the simplest line. Sometimes the best line is the line that evokes more feeling than actual wordsmithing.” – Pusha T

22. “G.O.O.D. Music is on top because G.O.O.D. Music is the culture. When you think of, you know, just every aspect from music, influence, fashion, art level. If it’s not G.O.O.D Music, then it’s somebody who was influenced heavily by G.O.O.D. Music.” – Pusha T

23. “I feel like my lyrics are just dark and scathing. I feel like the lyrics on ‘Darkest Before Dawn’ are uncompromised hip-hop and really speaking to my core fan base. Basically what’s been known in my discography the entire time.” – Pusha T

24. “I just look at capitalizing on everything that I feel like G.O.O.D. Music brings to the music industry, our following, and the culture. First of all, we have incredible artists. It’s definitely about getting those albums out in a very manicured fashion.” – Pusha T

25. “I tell people that the Clipse were the first Internet rap darlings.” – Pusha T

26. “I’ve been going to Europe for some time on the festival circuit, and once you get in that element and see others reacting to it, it’s easier to understand. You get trapped in the wave. The beats are driving and super-aggressive – like, so hard. I was curious.” – Pusha T

 

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27. “More than anything, Play Cloths has taken risks in regards to the pieces of clothing that we’re even creating. We started out as straight T-shirts. It was just T-shirts and a couple cool things. Now, it’s leisure pants, it’s all types of clothing. We’re evolving even with fashion trends on a super high level.” – Pusha T

 

28. “My style is forever changing.” – Pusha T

29. “Pharrell has definitely influenced my style in regards to streetwear. Simply because we’re from that era that Nigo and A Bathing Ape started. That’s where it all started at for us.” – Pusha T

30. “Virginia Beach is just such a melting pot for so many different things, and they just have so many influences. I would always say that the area definitely influences Play Cloths. The area itself just has so many influences, whether it be fashion, music, everything.” – Pusha T

31. “Allen Iverson is, like, my all-time hero.” – Pusha T

32. “Even with social media and where we are…everything is about the look.” – Pusha T

33. “I feel like I’m the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be a bit victimized, and I don’t feel like that’s me.” – Pusha T

34. “I had a really successful 2013, ’14, ’15. Touring, just doing my thing. Super – I mean, can’t complain about nothing. And my road manager got killed. And it ruined everything. Now, I tell people – I don’t know if this is a word. But I tell people that that re-sensitized me.” – Pusha T

35. “I see people doing things in their Blackberrys, and I need paper. Lines. Alphabets. I need to see it. It’s so elementary, man.” – Pusha T

36. “I’ve always had some level of having to be independent outside of music because the music wasn’t a smooth ride. We lost a lot in the mix: Everybody that I came in the music game with – friends I brought in with me – are all doing 10-34 years in jail. That’s why if you want to get the real, you gotta get it from me.” – Pusha T

 

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37. “Me tweeting sometimes, it’s like, I don’t even remember what I say. It’s just coming off how it’s coming off.” – Pusha T

 

38. “My music is airy; it’s spacious. It requires you to be able to rap and articulate your message over it. That’s what the beat demands of you. Not a lot of people try to rap over my beats because it’s a bit of a task.” – Pusha T

39. “People don’t understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they’re not all the way there, but it’s elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.” – Pusha T

40. “The Re-Up Gang mixtapes are going down in history, man. I still listen to them in my car, and the ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ album. I tell people all the time that I’ll never make another album like that one again. Never!” – Pusha T

41. “A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he’s usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don’t know what to think of it.” – Pusha T

42. “Darkest Before Dawn,’ the short film, is basically the film of a man who faces the darkness when his back is against the wall and just about how miracles come in all forms, and even in your darkest times, it comes.” – Pusha T

43. “I don’t even know how to think about running out of things to talk about. Certain things are inescapable to me. I’m connected by the hip with so many things in the streets.” – Pusha T

44. “I got two stores, two streetwear stores, at home. Have to tend to those. Play Cloths. Have to tend to that business.” – Pusha T

45. “I never understood why movies don’t have to be as responsible, or the responsibility stops with Rated R. I feel like music, you gotta – you put the sticker on it, you make the clean version, then you’re explaining yourself, and then you have to do charities to offset what you just said. No one else has to do this!” – Pusha T

46. “I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce – maybe it’s a Southern bounce or something.” – Pusha T

 

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47. “In God we trust, the game is all us. Til the sky calls or its flames on us.” – Pusha T

 

48. “My mood board says that there should be a G.O.O.D. Music festival. Why not? Like, we haven’t – I don’t think – and I think all of the G.O.O.D. Music artists and affiliates are doing so many different things that we never get to Voltron up. So that would be a thing of mine.” – Pusha T

49. “Pain is joy when it cries, it’s my smile in disguise.” – Pusha T

50. “The crafting of lyrics is really a task, and when it comes to street culture, I don’t feel like anyone else articulates it better than me.” – Pusha T

 

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