Joe Budden Quotes

In my world, even sure bets are not certain; 'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version.

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

I never cared, I was careless, Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless. Or fear bein' fearless but fearful, So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful.

Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse, Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse.

Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present

Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success

They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply....tell the world I never cared it was against me

Like I said, as long as I'm consistent and I try to put my best foot forward, and work as hard as I possibly can, everything else will fall into place - God'll take care of everything.

In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors.

Maybe I'm regular and the world needs to adjust?

Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.

God I hear you giving me an earfull but I'm gonna cruise in 5th gear until I'm near you.

You’ll never progress if you never try

Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.

Why try to fit in when you a stand out?

And I'll never let myself down..How so? I don't expect too much from me.

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.

I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions.

You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.

You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one

It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak.

I'm lookin' forward to doin' a lot of big things. I've been doin' a lot of big things: a lot of traveling, a lot of recording - I'm excited.

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game.

Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.

I know that I'm kind of a big deal online, but I think that some of that is starting to seep into the streets, and you want to kind of continue to make sure it does that.

Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right

I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer.

Joe Budden TV is life through the eyes of Joe Budden. You've gotta go check it out - it's pretty fun.

Certain majors [lables] just know what they're doin', and got a good grip on the dynamic of what's happening, and some don't.

I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing online that I'm not aware of.

I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.

I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in the group, 'cause everybody has rewrote their sh*t except for me.

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.

I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

A few more albums, a few more years, I'll be like Peter Petrelli in Heroes. I'll be some type of rap super-monster or something.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.

I think, it's so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something.