Joe Budden Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

I always call niggas fools for wanting to learn the hard way. When I'm really the fool for tryna teach 'em. When the blinds leading the blind. You can't reach 'em. If niggas ain't as hungry as you then why feed 'em? Niggas ain't tryna be lead then why lead 'em? Having big problems with your dogs, why breed em?

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

I believe that life is meaningless without hope, which is really what that line is about. Without hope, what are we living for? I wouldn't wanna see where exactly I'd be in five years. I wouldn't wanna know my exact date of death. I wouldn't want to know my exact cause of death. Certain things I just want to allow to take place rather than just have the knowledge beforehand.

I could've never envisioned things goin' this way in a million years. But, I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions. I'm sure that everything [has] happened for a reason.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.

When you're young and you're comin' up, and you dream of gettin' this record deal, and then you actually get it, and, you know, its apples and oranges from everything that you pictured. The line was pretty self-explanatory to me: once I got in my major label agreement, I definitely couldn't deal with it. It was drivin' me crazy, givin' me gray hairs at an early age.