Nas Quotes

"Never stop. Never settle." I believe in this message.

Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.

Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost.

Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane

The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?

All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.

I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart.

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

Read more learn more, change the globe

With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.

There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Whose world is this? The world is yours.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about.

I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me.

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her.

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.

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.

I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me.

Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

All I need is one mic One beat, one stage One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib One god to show me how to do things his son did.