I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and ...
There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.
There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.
In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
No, I can't do rap music!
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
Hate has no place in the house of God.
I don't even really like rap music.
I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.
If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.
I wear my heart on my sleeve.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
A rap on the ringed finger does not hurt.
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
Only do what your heart tells you.
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.
Eric Draven: Suddenly I heard a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Gideon: What are you talking about? Eric Draven: You heard me rapping, right?
Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I don't really listen to rap; I just like to rap.
