Nas Quotes
I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business
I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready.
I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity Just hope the big man show me some courtesy.
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.
I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.
At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.
Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.
Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.
I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.
If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.
I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine.
If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say.
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.
The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind
It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.
I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.
There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.
I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.
